For athletes, there are many skills needed to be at the top of your game, like good hand-eye coordination, eye tracking ability and heightened depth perception. These articles focus on ways to improve these vision skills and maintain the best eyesight possible to better your sports game.
Watching football has become the ubiquitous American pastime. Whether you’re enjoying Friday Night Lights in the fall or dialed in to the NFL Red Zone throughout the professional season, it’s a sport that people across the country love watching. It’s also one of the most popular sports to pursue as a young athlete. In fact, […]
LASIK eye surgery has long been touted as a relative “quick fix” for refractive errors, like myopia, hyperopia, and astigmatism. This surgery has little downtime and often improves patients’ vision by using a highly specialized laser to alter the shape of the cornea. Unfortunately, for many people, the surgery doesn’t go quite as planned. While […]
Depending on where you live, you may or may not have realized the unprecedented growth of hockey as a youth sport. More and more hockey leagues are popping up all over the country. Many of these kids have big dreams of playing in the NHL. After all, what young player wouldn’t dream of hoisting the […]
Whenever an athlete gets injured, there are many conversations in the media about what it will take for them to recover and how it will impact both their and their team’s futures. But, have you ever considered what would happen if an athlete developed a vision issue? For athletes, vision is an integral function of […]
Good volleyball players must be athletic, and quick and be aware of the movement of not only the ball but the players around them. They play a fast-moving game and so must be hyperfocused when they are on the clock. Because of this, good vision is an integral part of being a good volleyball player. […]
There’s a lot of emphasis on physical strength when it comes to athletic training, especially for hockey players. Hockey players need about as much strength as they can get, from muscular to cardiovascular strength. But what about goalies? They don’t move around nearly as much as the offensive and defensive lines, who spend significantly more […]
