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Vision Therapy: Sports
“Keep your eye on the ball.” Every athlete has heard that phrase, whether it’s baseball, football, basketball, volleyball, soccer or golf. That’s because one of the most important aspects of successful athletic performance in any sport is having proficient visual skills.
Practice makes perfect, and your vision can be fine-tuned like any other athletic skill through sports vision therapy offered by Vision Development Specialists.
Sports vision therapy is increasing in popularity as more athletes, young and old, amateur and professional, are becoming aware of its effectiveness for helping them achieve greater things on the playing field. The goal of sports vision therapy is not to improve eye sight, but greatly enhance the ways in which you use your eyes in going for the win.
With customized programs geared towards the skill-set of a specific sport, Vision Development Specialists can fine-tune depth perception, improve tracking skills, enhance hand-eye coordination and widen the scope of peripheral vision. Development of these attributes will result in athletes being able to more successfully:
- Track balls
- Dodge defenders
- Connect on swings, whether it’s a bat, club or racquet
- Kick, throw, and catch with greater precision
Participants of the sports vision therapy program attend an individualized session in the office each week, followed by a series of “practice” assignments to be tackled at home. Vision Development Specialist’s vision therapy results have scored big with its participants—recently a little leaguer was moved up from eighth in his baseball team’s line up to clean-up hitter! |
