Vision loss is common for patients who have experienced brain injury, and few regain vision completely. University of Miami’s Jose Romano says that this vision loss can lead to a “very poor quality of life as they often bump into things, cannot drive or read.”

Romano developed NeuroEyeCoach, a visual rehabilitation therapy that improved vision in over 80 percent of stroke and traumatic brain injury patients in the study. Of those patients, 79 percent said they had less disability after doing NeuroEyeCoach. “Up to recently, there was very little treatment available to restore vision loss in this population,” says Romano.

• Jose Romano