SPORTS VISION TRAINING...THE PHYSICAL EDGE!

Athletes spend many hours training their bodies. Why, then, should they not spend time training the visual system? An athlete can have a finely tuned body, but if they can't react to information properly, that perfect body is useless.

Welcome to the world of Sports Vision Training! Sports Vision Training, sometimes called Athletic Performance Vision Training, builds the skills needed for your sport with a program geared to your specific needs. We are enabling the athlete to use the visual system with greater accuracy, efficiency, and endurance. Sports Vision Training takes you beyond mechanics of the game. It will improve the way you see, recognize, and react to fast moving objects. By overloading the eyes through a variety of exercises your eye muscles will strengthen, resulting in the eyes working more efficiently and effectively with the other parts of the body. Our Sports Vision Evaluations are extensive series of tests performed on state of the art equipment which allows us to find sport specific skills which require improvement.

Sports Vision Training accomplishes:

• Improves "hand-eye", "foot-eye" coordination for better performance
  
  
• Allows for improved communication between the eyes and brain for superior field/court decision-making
  
  
• Allows for quicker reaction time on the court/field
  
  
• Improves peripheral vision for enhanced court/field visual performance
  
  
• Improves depth perception for incredibly enhanced performance
  
  
• Better fielding performance on the baseball/softball field
  
  
• Better free-throw & 3-point shooting performance
  
  
• Overall better visual health and performance
  
  
• Is recognized as "weight lifting for the eyes"
  
  
• Allows for improved GPA results
  

Symptoms of Athletes with Possible Visual Problems

Sports in General

• Inconsistent performance from game to game
  
  
• Does not perform well under pressure
  
  
• Performs better when still as opposed to moving or off balance
  
  
• Performance does not noticeably improve after extensive practice
  
  
• Timing seems off
  
  
• Good natural ability but not performing up to potential
  
  
• Ball not always seen clearly
  
  
• Difficulty knowing where the ball or other players are at all times
  
  
• Difficulty judging rotation or spin on ball
  
  
• Over or under-estimating the distance of ball, players or boundaries
  
  
• Difficulty making a specific shot or play
  
  
• Difficulty remembering plays
  
  
• Making similar mistakes over and over again

Specific Sports

Baseball

• Power hitter who has difficulty seeing ball make contact with bat
  
  
• Good fielder- inconsistent hitter
  
  
• Good hitter- inconsistent fielder
  
  
• Difficulty seeing certain pitches and strikes out a lot
  
  
• Pitcher with control problems
  
  
• Player who performs better during the day rather than night
  
  
• Player who can only field moving to one direction

Basketball

• Eye-hand coordination/dribbling
  
  
• Poor on the fast break /commits many turnovers
  
  
• Inconsistent free-throw shooter
  
  
• Good shooter only when both feet are on the ground
  
  
• Can only shoot from certain side or distance on the court
  
  
• Unaware of other's positions on the court

Football

• Quarterback who cannot find his secondary receivers
  
  
• Quarterback who cannot pick up subtle changes in defensive alignments
  
  
• Running backs with "bad hands"
  
  
• The Tight End/Wide Receiver who cannot catch the ball in a crowd or when he is in the air
  
  
• Players who cannot visualize plays from the chalkboard or understand formations
  
  
• Defensive player who is never where the ball is

We evaluate, train and enhance all of the visual abilities crucial to athletic performance. The philosophy behind testing and improving visual skills differs from one sport to another. For instance, peripheral awareness is crucial for a basketball player or soccer player to monitor teammates, opponents and the fast moving balls. Timing, depth perception and accurate hand-eye coordination are necessary for a winning tennis match.