Sports Vision

Performing well in sports requires more than just seeing clearly.  It requires good depth perception, especially when both you are moving and the target is moving.  Performance also hinges on being able to focus quickly from near to distance.  Peripheral awareness is also important.  When we're under stress, peripheral vision generally becomes more tunneled.  This has a significant effect on performance.  One last item I want to touch upon is glare recovery.  When exposed to a bright light, how quickly can you recover normal vision?

What's interesting is most if not all of these areas of vision are improvable through vision training.  With this, one's performance in their sport could very much improve.

Gas Permeable Lenses

Soft contact lenses have now benn around since the early 1970's. They're generally comfortable and can correct most vision conditions. Why would anybody want to wear hard lenses (gas permeable). There are various reasons.

1) If there is a distorted front surface (the cornea) of the eye, gas permeables correct the vision better.

2) Some older individuals have always worn gas permeables and cannot switch to soft lenses and see clearly.

3) They're smaller in size and for various visual conditions, that's bettefor the eye as compared to the larger soft contact lenses.