Four Ways to Keep Your Eyes Safe
Did you know that most eye injuries come from accidents around the home? Yard work, household projects, cleaning and cooking are the cause of more than 40% of eye injuries. Another 40% occurred during sports and recreation, according to the Eye Injury Snapshot survey.
How can you keep your eyes safe?
- Wear appropriate sunwear-- make sure your sunglasses block UV rays. Most optical shops can check your sunglasses for you. Overexposure to ultraviolet light can cause a painful sunburn of the cornea, particularly when light is reflected off water or snow.
- Is there a possibility of flying debris? Stones or twigs in the yard; nails or sawdust in the workshop; or spattering grease or chemicals in the kitchen can all pose a hazard. Protective eyewear can be purchased at any hardware store for just a few dollars. They should have "ANSI Z87.1" marked on the lens or frame.
- When participating in sports, be sure to wear sports safety glasses with polycarbonate shatter-resistant lenses. Consider if there are projectiles involved, such as baseballs or hockey pucks. Fishing is actually the most dangerous sport as far as eye injuries are concerned.
- Avoid home fireworks-- leave those to the professionals!
For more information on eye safety: Children's Eye Safety Sports Eye Safety Eye Safety at Home
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Sports Vision Development
Eye coordination problems can keep the most determined athlete from performing at his or her best. If you or your child is having trouble hitting that ball, your visual skills may be holding you back.
Fortunately, visual skills can be improved through training. The areas most critical to sports are:
- Eye-hand or eye-body coordination: critical for quick and accurate reactions
- Depth perception: to judge the speed and distance of the ball
- Visualization: to anticipate where the ball or player will be before it gets there
- Tracking of moving objects: ability to keep your eye on the ball
- Peripheral vision: seeing from "the corner of your eye"
- Focusing: being able to quickly change focus from one object to another
- Contrast sensitivity: keeping sharp vision, no matter the lighting conditions
- Dynamic visual acuity: sharp vision for moving objects
All of these areas and more can be enhanced through a program of vision therapy. Call for your appointment today: (301) 951-0320 or Request an Appointment Online
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iPad Apps
Make your child's iPad time beneficial as well as fun.
Vision Tap: matching, visual memory, tracking Presents: saccades, reaction time Find Me: matching, visual discrimination Animals' Matching: visual discrimination, visual memory Animal Hide & Seek: visual memory, figure-ground Touch Maze: tracking, saccades Spot the Difference: visual discrimination, visual memory, figure-ground Find the Ball: tracking, visual memory
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