Sports vision training is a personalized discipline designed for athletes. During the therapy, the specialist in Ophthalmology submits the patient to a series of exercises, allowing the enhancement of different skills that will be very useful during sports practice.
What skills are enhanced with sports vision training?
Athletes have to be aware of many details during training or competitions, so it is very important to exercise certain skills that will allow them to perform better. Some of the skills that are enhanced during visual sports training are:
- Concentration
- Peripheral vision
- Eye-hand-foot coordination
- Static visual acuity
- Dynamic visual acuity
- Stereopsis
- Reaction time and speed
- Binocular vision
- Contrast sensitivity
- Perception of space
What is trained with visual skills?
Visual skills are worked with the motor execution of each specific sport. The athlete learns to move his eyes, maintain fixation, make changes of gaze, enhance depth vision more effectively while moving within the field of play. In all cases the exercises are done with speed, rhythm and distraction stimuli to simulate a real game situation.
What results will be achieved with visual sports training?
Thanks to the visual sports training, it will be possible to obtain a better performance in the sport that the patient practices, improving reaction speeds and anticipation in any action that he/she performs on the playing field and under stress. The motor actions you perform will be more efficient and more automatic, and therefore, the results will improve considerably.