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Sports Vision Training helps athletes sharpen visual skills for faster reactions, better tracking, and stronger hand-eye coordination.
"It is a matter of 'what you are, compared to what you could be.'"
Your Vision And Performance
Your vision, just like the strength in your arms and the speed in your legs, plays an important part in how well you play your game. And, just like exercise and practice can increase your strength and speed, there are ways you can improve your visual fitness. With sports glasses, contact lenses, or sports vision therapy we can improve visual tracking, hand/eye coordination, depth perception, peripheral awareness, reaction time and visualization.
Improving Your Vision Skills
If incoming visual information is inaccurate, it can throw off your body's timings and cause your performance level to drop. Mishitting the ball, throwing off target, dropping passes, or consistently reaching for the puck too late can be indications of inaccurate vision. Many people are remarkably skillful at adapting to their vision problems. They assume everyone sees the way they do. Others may have good vision skills that enable them to play well but, if sharpened, could help them play even better. It is a matter of "what you are, compared to what you could be." With sports glasses, contact lenses, or sports vision therapy we can improve visual tracking, hand/eye coordination, depth perception, peripheral awareness, reaction time and visualization.
READY FOR THE GAME?
What About Sports Vision Training?
Sports Vision Training may help athletes sharpen visual skills for faster reactions, better tracking, and stronger hand-eye coordination.
For example, athletes train their muscles to improve strength and control. In the same way, they can train visual skills that support performance on the field or court.
In addition, athletes often rely on eye tracking, depth perception, focus, and hand-eye coordination during fast play. Our Eye Tracking Dysfunction page explains how tracking skills support reading, sports, and daily visual tasks.
For a broader professional overview, review the American Optometric Association sports and performance vision resource.
Sports Vision Training Skills We Evaluate
For picking out the rotation of a fastball as it comes towards the plate.
Keep your eye on the ball or puck! Accurately tracking a fast-moving object or person.
Being able to quickly shift your focus from the ball to the defenders downfield, or from the catcher to the first baseman.
To dodge the hostile linebacker bearing down on you while you're focusing on your receivers.
The ability to make sense of information gathered through our eyes.
To catch a fly ball, or time a swing of a tennis racket and identifying the exact location and distance.
Coordinating visual information with other motor skills. To do it all with the confidence of a pro!
Simultaneous accurate focusing and tracking with both eyes.
The speed at which the brain processes visual input from the eyes.
Ready for Sports Vision Training?
Sports Vision Training isn't about correcting your vision. You wear glasses or contacts for that. Vision Therapy is about training (or retraining) the brain to achieve maximum efficiency in the way it processes and responds to visual inputs.
Sports Vision is about training people with excellent vision to process and respond to what they see faster and better. Using a personalized and customized series of techniques and exercises, the brain learns to respond more accurately and efficiently.
If you're ready to dominate in your sport, but feel as though you are at a performance plateau, sports vision training may be exactly what you need to get to the next level.