EYES AND SPORTS
THEORY
20 to 30% of THE people who exercise sports need a correction of the eyes. Some sports require protection oft the eyes. 27% of all eye injuries are caused by accidents while sporting. 40% of them concern children under 18 years, who wear standard glasses or contact lenses. Many of these injuries can be prevented by wearing the wright glasses.
A. CORRECTION OF THE EYE
That a good vision has a positive impact on sports performances is obvious. Approximately 90% of all information that surrounds us reaches us through our eyes. In the past this has been frequently researched, the results confirm this.
Important points :
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Seeing contrasts between object and background is often essential in many game situations and lightning conditions. Color Perception, vision and depth perception is so very important! So a quick glance you can shift from your opponent, so you can expect he will address the ball!
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The color perception by fifteen to one hundred athletes disturbed. It almost always men. This problem can not be solved!
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An insufficient focus on five and thus sees his or her available energy is not maximized. Causes: myopia, hyperopia and astigmatism. This can be solved with glasses or contact lenses. The daily spectacle is usually not adapted to the sport (to slide easily off / is fragile)
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Wearing contact lenses instead of glasses during sports exercise often ideal, especially in contact sports. Even in sports, in contact with dust or sweat, contact lenses are useful. The blinking like a windshield wiper motion makes the lenses more. Contact lenses also ensure an unobstructed field of view and give more freedom. Lenses are not only aesthetically but useful to increase your functionality. Only if there is too much dust (also veldcros) will also be carriers of a contact lens wear protective goggles
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Cooperation regarding the level of the eye muscles and oogstand one in four athletes is not ideal, which may have implications for estimating the distance (depth perception). Some people can know in advance so that they never will achieve excellence as a tennis player, Basketter, footballer, how strong they are motivated. Depth Visibility can not be practiced. It is therefore good for a young player screening depth perception!
B. PROTECTION
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Wind and flying debris can be very little disturbing. From a speed of 10 km / h you need glasses to protect your eyes. This protection is a must for lens wearers.
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Impact protection during sport high oogblessures deserves because many are easily preventable. Firstly you have the impacts by the ball: Sports Risks include: squash, racketbal, badminton, hockey, golf. The object is to play there quite small so it is not absorbed by the eye socket, but taken directly to the eye hit.
Besides the impact on your glasses, wear glasses with. In this respect, dangerous: soccer, rugby, hockey, basketball, squash, tennis, handball, volleyball, judo, martial art, custom glasses can not ... because the face and eyes hurt in a drunk or battle ball! Choose soft, flexible and unbreakable glasses frames.
* Protection from bright light much less fatiguing, what your performance benefits! The light conditions are changing rapidly (eg when skiing). So you can have different color filters: dark brown to bright light / orange or yellow filter in fog. Glasses with interchangeable lenses thus offers an even greater user comfort. The glass can be adapted to the weather or the sports you practice:
Ø Yellow = fog / night blindness
Ø Orange = changeable weather / wave
Ø Ruby red = all types of weather / wave
Ø Gray / brown = Sun
Ø Mirror = water and mountains
Ø Polaroid filter: sparkles on water surface
* UV Protection: We all know that we must protect the skin against the sun, especially at high altitude. The same goes for the eyes. Winter Athletes (Ski, snowboard, snow scooter, snow kite, mountain climbing, trekking) should therefore give special attention to the UV-filter of their glasses. In special circumstances (eg on glaciers), there are even special glacier glasses, the nose protect them, by means of a special nose-piece.
* Swimmers best protect their eyes from chlorine and bacteria. The eyepieces should join adjustable friendly and efficient sealing with silicone skin. Antifog glass prevent aandamping. The lenses in your goggles are also corrected. You can even get customized with a different adjustment right and left! If you swim far out, the best glasses a UV filter, because the UV radiation on water protection. There are also hydrodynamic competitis-strength glasses. Cost: from € 20 - to strength.
* Divers: A properly fitted mask protects your eyes from the contaminated (salt) water. To know if your mask fits and leakproof, put the mask against your face, you breathe in through the nose and hold your breath: If the mask from sticking to your face when you let it, it is leakproof. Diving Masks with corrective glasses exist, both in distance vision and near-vision. This is especially necessary after the age of 40 years! Near vision you need for your depth gauge to read bvb! You can go further to improve your vision underwater, there are panoramic masks, which enlarge the field by 30%. A face-transparent silicone increases in the light at great depths!
* Water sports (water skiing, jet skiing, surfing, kite-surfing, rafting, sailing, ...) may lose glasses "in action". Glasses that floats is a major advantage in such situations! There are also special strings that float your glasses to prevent from sinking to the bottom, if he falls overboard.
* Fishermen: A Polaroid sunglasses filter protects against glare on water surfaces. A UV filter is also very important to the waterfront, because the UV light also reflects off the water, and thus greater presence. For the 40 + there are also such sunglasses with a reading segment, so it is easier to bait the hook and you can make fish can onthaken!
* Moto Riders: Instead goggles under the helmet you can wear glasses on the helmet. So get your ears in a fix
* Snooker glasses: If your pool, look through the top of your glasses. Usually there is also the frame. There are now rimless glasses with large lenses, so you have your fix by watching for when you bend over for a master shot!
C. Optician WHAT YOU CAN DO FOR YOU IN FIELD OF SPORTS GLASSES?
* Screening for the above described deficiencies (vision / color vision / depth perception) and thereby help you better, safer and more pleasant your sport. He may also discourage some sports!
* The correct glasses or contact lens fitting that the sport at the high standards of comfort and best seen, comply. Contact now take a special place, as already mentioned, especially the soft. They talk of sports lenses. What are their advantages.
- Soft contact lenses remain well in place. Better than glasses or hard contact lenses.
- A soft contact lens wearer is less disturbed by dust, then a hard contact lens wearer
- Are immediately comfortable
* If you do not like wearing lenses, laser surgery can also remove your vision correction. If you do not have an optical correction. Sunglasses and protective eyewear are obviously still needed!
* Guidance on preventing eye injuries. Some sports like squash, racketbal or geweldadiger contact sports (hockey / boxing) is important to wear special eye protection. Every year in Belgium and the Netherlands at least 5 000 oogblessures caused by sports without eye protection and a large number of them with serious consequences. Especially squash and golf are very dangerous sports in the eyes, because the small ball, which speeds of 200 km / h can get, just in the eye socket and fit as the eye can seriously hurt!
specific tips:
Polycarbonate-glazing is the best safety.
Take the non-frames too small, otherwise it may also be pushed into the eye socket
* Good advice: Sunglasses are very fashionable nowadays. Be good but advise buying. It may well be that you buy a very nice glasses, but technically not fit properly. The questions that should ask are the following:
- The frame is light, unbreakable?
- The glasses are shatter-proof and scratch resistant?
- There is a sufficiently wide field of view?
- The glasses flex springs with adjustable elastic ends
- The anti-glare glasses, so degrading reflections can be picked up (both outside and in sports!)?
- There are elastic bands on the feathers, so your head does not hurt in a side impact?
- Is the soft nose bridge?
- There is a ventilation system, so the glasses are not sweating aandampt
- Is the UV filter adjusted
- Is the float glasses, if you want water sports
- Polaroid filters work degrading reflections on water surfaces away, what sailors and windsurfers appreciate