Sports Vision

From basic eye care services to visual performance enhancement training, this evidence-based resource explores a wide range of sports vision services, addressing many of the questions you may have regarding assessment and treatment procedures, outcome expectations, and applications to sport. You'll find a thorough review and discussion of the role of vision care in an athlete's performance, as well as practical recommendations for applying current research findings to clinical practice. The accompanying CD-ROM enables you to easily print your own copies and versions of evaluation forms, screening forms, sample profiles, and patient handouts, plus other samples and resources used in client assessment and training! Evidence-based information covers a wide range of sports vision services. A task analysis approach used throughout the text allows the reader to develop solid reasoning skills and evaluate information needed for clinical practice. Coverage of goals, expectations, and strategies assists in determining the treatment options for a multitude of sports. Practical, clinically oriented chapters on assessment, prescribing, and ocular injuries provide the essential information needed for clinical practice in an easy-to-use reference. Addresses vision training from the certified athletic trainer's (ATC) perspective, reflecting the collaboration between athletic trainers, optometrists, and ophthalmologists in managing athletes. Visual aids including photographs, tables, and boxed text help to clarify important concepts and allow ease of access to important information. A CD-ROM is included allowing quick access to important resources used in client assessment and training.

From basic eye care services to visual performance training, this evidence-based resource explores a range of sports vision services, including assessment and treatment procedures, outcome expectations, and applications to a variety of sports. Optometrists, ophthalmologists, and sports medicine practitioners will find a thorough review and discussion of the role of vision care in an athlete's performance, as well as practical recommendations for applying current research findings to clinical practice. Contains practical, clinically oriented chapters on visual assessment, prescribing, and ocular injuries in athletes. Takes a task analysis approach allowing the reader to develop solid reasoning skills and evaluate information needed for clinical practice. Includes a new chapter on Assessment and Management of Sports-Related Concussion. Features visual aids throughout including photographs, tables, and boxes to help clarify and visualize important concepts. Addresses sports vision training approaches and updated digital options reflecting the collaboration between athletic trainers, optometrists, and ophthalmologists in helping optimize vision in athletes.

A text for eye care and sports medicine practitioners, optical and sports manufacturers, sports scientists, and coaches, identifying measures which optimize safe and efficient vision in sport. Covers aspects including sports for the visually impaired, eye injuries and eye protectors, light and lighting, vision correction, sports optometry, forensic sports vision, and setting up a sports vision practice. Features chapter summaries, bandw and color photos, a glossary, vendor and organization listings, and survey results. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Biomedical Engineering Principles in Sports contains in-depth discussions on the fundamental biomechanical and physiological principles underlying the acts of throwing, shooting, hitting, kicking, and tackling in sports, as well as vision training, sports injury, and rehabilitation. The topics include: -Golf ball aerodynamics and golf club design, -Golf swing and putting biomechanics, -Tennis ball aerodynamics and ball- and shoe-surface interactions, -Tennis stroke mechanics and optimizing ball-racket interactions, -Baseball pitching biomechanics and perceptual illusions of batters, -Football forward pass aerodynamics and tackling biomechanics, -Soccer biomechanics, -Basketball aerodynamics and biomechanics, -Vision training in sports, -Children maturation and performance, -Rehabilitation and medical advances in treatment of sports injuries. This book is essential reading for biomedical engineers, physicists, sport scientists, and physiologists who wish to update their knowledge of biomechanical and biomedical principles and their applications to sports. The book can be used in a one-semester Senior or Graduate-level course in Biomechanics, Biomedical Engineering, Sports Technology, Sports Medicine, or Exercise Physiology. In addition, it will be of value to interested athletic laypersons who enjoy watching or participating in sports such as golf, tennis, softball, football, soccer, and basketball.

This cutting-edge book, written by Thomas Wilson and Jeff Falkel, offers an innovative, dynamic programme to teach athletes to recognise and enhance their visual abilities.

This book is a small effort to reveal the importance of vision in sports and sporting performance of the athletes and is intended for all those who are interested in sports and vision. These may include eye care professionals including optometrists and ophthalmologists and sports medicine practitioners, sports coaches, team managers, sports clubs, sports associations, athletes, players and all those parents who want their kids to excel in sports. It is just an effort to appreciate the immediate need for basic information on the importance of vision in sports as the sports today is no more a recreational activity only. It has become one of the biggest industries where millions of dollars are involved in the form of fees, prizes, advertisements and sponsorships. It is intended that this book will fulfill basic educational requirements, stimulate people's interest in sports vision and provide a reference source. The text encourages to keep themselves up-to-date and help establish the science of sports vision as an accepted discipline.

Discusses the visual aspects of sports and explains how players mentally shape and react to what they see

If you are looking for an innovative way to improve athletic performance on the court or field, vision training may be the answer. SportsVision: Training for Better Performanceintroduces a dynamic program to teach athletes to see the ball, the field, teammates, and opposition better, giving them the ability to perform better. The cutting-edge book provides coaches, athletes, sports medicine professionals, and parents with more than 50 sports vision training exercises and activities. Based on proven training techniques shown to deliver solid results, the exercises are sport specific and easy to use at home, on the field, or in the weight room. Perforated charts and forms are available for easy reference. Visual needs and training exercises are provided for 17 different sports. In the past, sports vision training has been done primarily in clinical settings. This is the only book of its kind that takes sports vision out of the lab and onto the field, sport by sport. It challenges you to reach the next level of performance. Included are instructions for creating your own training equipment so that you can implement vision training inexpensively, anywhere and anytime, using ordinary materials available at any discount store. SportsVision: Training for Better Performancecontains the following features: -Detailed visual exercises and more than 40 photos -Numerous eye charts and activity plots that enable you to test vision and -Step-by-step exercises that make designing your own training programs easyIf you are a coach, athlete, athletic trainer, or parent, SportsVision: Training for Better Performancecan improve athletic performance, no matter what sport you're involved in.

Outlines a program of eye exercises and training routines designed to improve the accuracy, speed, and coordination of an athlete's response to visual cues

A valuable reference source for professionals and academics in this field, this is an encyclopedia-dictionary of the many scientific and technical terms now encountered in kinesiology and exercise science.

The first book of its kind devoted to this topic, this comprehensive text/reference presents state-of-the-art research and reviews current challenges in the application of computer vision to problems in sports. Opening with a detailed introduction to the use of computer vision across the entire life-cycle of a sports event, the text then progresses to examine cutting-edge techniques for tracking the ball, obtaining the whereabouts and pose of the players, and identifying the sport being played from video footage. The work concludes by investigating a selection of systems for the automatic analysis and classification of sports play. The insights provided by this pioneering collection will be of great interest to researchers and practitioners involved in computer vision, sports analysis and media production.

The author begins by defining the discourse of athletics and investigating its presence in broadcasting by means of textual analyses of the media images of athletes Ryne Sandberg, Jim McMahon, and Michael Jordan. She then considers the athletic ideology portrayed in Hollywood films, concluding that instead of an overarching ideology, there is a fluctuating set of attributes that vary from time to time and sport to sport. She also discusses the elements of race, gender, and family relations in the American sports film. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Beyond physical superiority, mental stamina, and smart play, most of the world's best athletes possess another specific advantage that gives them an edge. We're not talking about performance-enhancing drugs or blood doping, but something a lot more natural—good vision. Being able to follow a fastball as it flies over home plate, judge the shooting distance to a basketball hoop, or leap in the air to catch that spiraling football at just the right moment all depend on good eyesight. And maximizing one's vision can make all the difference between a good player and a great one. While wearing corrective lenses is certainly one way to sharpen visual acuity, it isn't the only one. In his new book, High Performance Vision , sports-vision specialist Dr. Donald Teig, shares his highly successful approach to visual enhancement. During his work with professional athletes over the past forty years, Dr. Teig developed a series of visual and visual-motor performance tests to determine the strengths and weaknesses of their eyesight. After establishing an initial baseline of test results, the athletes were given specific exercises designed to improve their visual skills. He then tested them again and measured the results against the baseline. With each succession of exercises, their sight and motor coordination improved, as did their performance on the playing field. In High Performance Vision , Dr. Teig details his unique approach and offers his highly effective exercise regimen for improving your own vision. If you've been looking for safe, natural way to improve your game, High Performance Vision offers the perfect solution. In a clear and reader-friendly style, it shows you how to gain the edge that many pros have used for years. ABOUT

This comprehensive text on vision therapy consolidates information that is currently scattered among many sources, including hot topics such as sports vision and vision rehabilitation. Contains an entire section on practice management. It features key terms, clinical pearls, review questions, case studies and high-quality illustrations. The book comes with a disk in Rich Text Format (RTF), which is compatible with most popular IBM and Macintosh word processing systems. The disk contains more than 100 techniques and practice management communications that can be modified to individual patients and printed out for use in practice.

Count on this complete guide to setting up and managing an optometric practice! Business Aspects of Optometry covers everything related to the business side of a practice — such as selecting a location and staff, equipping the office, office administration and personnel management, marketing, options for a specialty practice, controlling costs, billing and reimbursement, risk management, and financial planning. To succeed in practice, this is the one resource you need! Unique! Expert authors are practice management educators who teach the course in optometry schools. A logical organization makes it easy to find practical information on managing your own practice or purchasing your own practice. Coverage of different types of ownership includes self-employment, individual proprietorships, partnerships, and corporations. Coverage of cost control issues compares the selection and use of an optical laboratory versus an in-house finishing lab. Risk management and insurance coverage provides an overview of personal, life, liability, and disability insurance. Coverage of financial planning and tax reporting discusses topics including IRAs, retirement plans, estate planning, and personal and business tax issues. Bulleted lists, tables, figures, and boxes help you locate valuable information quickly. Checklists provide a logical progression in completing tasks. NEW chapters expand the book’s scope of coverage, and include these topics: Personal and professional goal setting Resumes and interviews Debt management Principles of practice transfer Ethics Quality assurance Specialty practice Vision rehabilitation Coding and billing Financial decision making Exit strategies

Dynamic interceptive actions are those actions for which the body, or an implement, must be moved into the right place at the right time in order to accomplish a task. These actions are particularly prevalent in sport, for example reaching to catch a ball or running towards a target to make a tackle. This book is the first to offer a comprehensive review of existing theoretical research on dynamic interceptive actions, as well as close examination of specific, practical applications. The book includes material on: * catching * wielding tennis rackets * putting in golf * controlling and kicking a soccer ball. It is essential reading for anybody with a close interest in motor learning and control or skill acquisition, and will be of interest to students of sport psychology, movement science and coaching science.

Terry McMorris provides students with the theoretical and practical background that is necessary for an understanding of the basics of skill acquisition and the nature of sports performance.