Prescribing for the Athlete
The eye care practitioner is in a unique position to provide expert consultative services to athletes regarding vision correction and the potential uses and benefits of ophthalmic products. The practitioner…
Visual Performance Evaluation
The search for the association between visual abilities and sports performance has a long and rich history. Many researchers and clinicians have sought to reveal the vision skills that correlate…
Sports Vision Practice Development
Successful practices that provide sports vision services share some common approaches and experiences. First, the eye care professionals have a passion for helping athletes to see their sport better. Second,…
Sports Vision Screening and Report Strategies
Sports vision practitioners have many opportunities to be involved with vision services for a sports team. A high percentage of professional and division I college and university sports teams in…
Visual Information Processing in Sports
Discussion, speculation, and research concerning the role of vision and visual information processing in sports have a long history. There is little debate that vision is a critical factor in…
Visual Task Analysis in Sports
Vision care for athletes should begin with the identification of visual factors that potentially contribute to peak human performance so that these specific functions can be isolated and measured, if…
Introduction to Sports Vision
Have you ever wished you could improve your batting average, lower your golf score, or just play your favorite sport better? Most people who participate in sporting activities love to…
1 Ocular Trauma
Anterior Segment Trauma Eyelid Laceration Blunt and penetrating facial trauma may result in eyelid laceration. The laceration may be extramarginal, may involve the eyelid margin, or may cause tissue loss….
Deformities of lower leg
15.1 Hemiplegic leg (lower leg level) From Herring JA. Chapter 35 – Disorders of the Brain, Tachdjian’s Pediatric Orthopaedics. 5 th ed. Elsevier/Saunders; 2014 1. Clinical feature (right hemiplegic leg…
Deformities of foot
16.1 Hallux valgus From Swartz MH. Chapter 20 – The Musculoskeletal System, Textbook of Physical Diagnosis. 8 th ed. Elsevier; 2020 1. Clinical feature: Great toe deviates laterally (left foot…
