Graphic Reveals the Nature of Eye Injuries in Athletes

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Colored CLs and Athletic Performance

“New York Jets wide receiver Santonio Holmes became the latest athlete to wear tinted contact lenses last night, giving his eyes a reddish hue in a game against the Patriots,” reports Yahoo! Finance. “The company that makes the contacts, Sports Tints, claims that they boost performance by aiding a player's ability to focus on certain colors and objects. The amber color, for example, supposedly helps baseball players read the seams on the baseball to recognize the pitch type easier. NBC in Miami did a last year report on a bunch of athletes in Florida who swear by the contacts. And in the past few months we've seen baseball players, football players, and even golfers wear the lenses in competition.” Read more.

Seeing Is Playing

"As a high-school football player, Mike Peters’ inability to see the football kept him from playing in college. As an eye doctor who works with the Carolina Hurricanes, Carolina RailHawks and Durham Bulls, he saw that those athletes’ abnormally good ability to see helped make them successful," according to the Charlotte Observer. "That difference is the gist of Peters’ new book, “See to Play,” which is as much a manual for athletes (and would-be athletes) on how to improve their eyesight as it is an examination of the role vision plays in athletic success. The book, scheduled to come out next month, is the culmination of five years of writing and a career’s worth of consideration." Read more.

Read more here: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2012/05/07/3224992/decock-what-if-hand-eye-coordination.html#storylink=cpy