VISION THERAPY
sPORTS VISION ENHANCEMENT IN SAN RAFAEL & SAN FRANCISCO, CA
Want to elevate your game? If your reaction time, hand-eye coordination, or accuracy isn’t keeping up, sports vision enhancement might be for you!
Our therapy strengthens the visual skills needed for sports like baseball and golf. After an initial in-person visit, follow-up sessions are available via Telehealth for your convenience. Book an appointment today and unlock your full visual potential!
WHAT IS SPORTS VISION ENHANCEMENT?
Sports vision enhancement is a curated program of exercises designed to help you achieve the visual skills you need to excel at your game.
Our program is tailored to your needs and goals and involves multiple exercises that will help your vision become more efficient. Sports vision enhancement focuses on your visual skills, including:
Eye tracking & attention
Eye-tracking is an important skill you use to help “keep your eye on the ball.” A couple of important skills we focus on at Rising Star Optometry include:
- Saccadic eye movements, your fast eye movements, which help you rapidly change your fixation to points of interest in space.
- Slower smooth pursuit eye movements, which help you track moving objects or keep your eyes on a target while you are in motion.
- Vergence movements, or the ability of your eyes to track objects as they come closer to you or move further away.
Focusing Accuracy
You use focusing skills every day to help keep objects clear and crisp, but accommodative inefficiencies can prevent you from focusing accurately. When this happens, it can make it difficult to focus on objects both near and far.
Depth Perception
Your eyes are constantly taking in information to help you navigate the space you’re in by using various skills, including accommodation and convergence. This is known as depth perception. However, conditions like amblyopia and strabismus can affect this crucial ability.
Eye-Hand Coordination
Eye-hand coordination is one of the most important skills in your athlete toolkit, and you use it every single day. Whether you’re throwing a ball or playing the drums, your eye-hand coordination helps you perform with accuracy and efficiency.
What to Expect from Sports Vision Enhancement
Every athlete has unique goals and visual abilities, so each program is customized to your specific needs. The process begins by addressing basic vision needs, such as correcting refractive errors with contact lenses. Next, deficient visual skills are improved through vision training exercises, often referred to as "visual calisthenics." Finally, advanced visual perceptual skills, like multiple object tracking and visual-motor reaction time, are developed and integrated into your specific sport.
During your initial appointment, we’ll identify any vision deficiencies and create a tailored program that may include therapeutic lenses, computerized vision games, tracking exercises, and activities to improve hand-eye coordination, balance, depth perception, and visual motor integration. Sports vision enhancement isn’t just for athletes—it can benefit people of all ages and skill levels, including those involved in dance, theater, or music.
Schedule your comprehensive eye exam at Rising Star Optometry today and experience advanced diagnostics for all your eye care needs!