Are you serious about sports or more of a weekend athlete? Either way, sports vision training can help! It’s an effective way to boost the visual skills you need to excel at your chosen sport, and stay safe while doing it.
Vision therapy trains the brain to achieve maximum efficiency in the way it processes and responds to visual input. Sports vision training teaches professional and other athletes to process what they see faster and more accurately. At Eye Trends we offer sports vision training, so contact us to learn more about how it can help you improve your game.
Sports Vision Is Important for Athletes
Strong and well-developed visual skills can help you improve your catching, throwing, and hitting skills, so you can excel in games such as football, baseball, basketball, hockey, and golf — in fact just about any sport!. Sharpening your tracking, focusing, peripheral awareness, and depth perception skills will help you determine the distance between a tennis ball and the net, or the proximity of another player as you run to first base. It’s no wonder that vision training helps athletes get an edge over their competitors.
Here are 3 ways sports vision can improve your game:
Improve your attention, focus, and concentration
Enhancing your ability to focus can boost your ability to concentrate. Eye focusing skills enable you to refocus your vision quickly and more accurately, so you can process moving objects, such as a ball, or players on a field, faster.
Hand-eye coordination
For optimum hand-eye coordination, your eyes must be able to focus on objects and track their motion as efficiently as possible. Whether it’s tracking a ball while you’re at-bat or throwing a ball to another player, the faster and more accurately your eyes perceive the object and convey this information to your brain, the faster your hands and the rest of your body can act on this information.
Peripheral Awareness and Depth Perception
Peripheral awareness training teaches you how to view objects and people from the “corners” of your eyes, expanding your peripheral vision.
If your brain isn’t using both eyes’ input equally, you may have trouble estimating distance or perceiving three-dimensional depth. Through depth perception training, your brain and eyes learn to perceive the distance of traveling objects, such as balls, so you can take action accordingly.
The sharper your vision, the better you can become in whatever sport you play. Your eye doctor will test your vision in specific areas to identify weak spots that need strengthening. Afterward, you’ll progress through a series of customized eye exercises and tests to strengthen your skills in those areas, in order to improve your game.
At Eye Trends in , The Woodlands, Spring, Greenspoint, Kingwood, and Houston, we offer sports vision training for eye focusing, peripheral awareness, depth perception and many other visual skills. To learn more about how sports vision training can help you become a better athlete, contact Dr. Lisa Roach today!
At Eye Trends, we put your family's needs first. Talk to us about how we can help you maintain healthy vision. Call us today: 936-206-7366 or book an appointment online to see one of our Conroe eye doctors.
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