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Sports Vision Therapy

 

If you're an athlete, you may be forgetting a crucial part of your training. Healthy, strong visual skills are directly related to your sports performance. That's why Dr. Miller, one of central Ohio's leaders in sports vision, only offers thorough eye examinations to uncover eye-teaming and vision-processing problems that can hinder you athletic edge. If a visual problem is detected, Dr. Miller offers the latest in sports vision therapy to retrain and strengthen your visual skills. Dr. Miller has the training and equipment to provided thorough team screenings and state-of-the-art treatment for ocular injuries.

Eye Injuries from Sports

 

The following facts from a study done by the National Society to Prevent Blindness (NS to PB)

Last year there were over 31,000 sports and recreational product-related eye injuries that were treated in hospital emergency rooms. These numbers are limited to product-related injuries treated in hospital emergency rooms. The actual number of sports and recreational eye injuries could be two to three times greater than the estimate if information on all medically attended injuries was available. That translates to 63,000 to 95,000. NS to PB estimates 70,000 sports-related eye injuries occur each year in the U.S.

ESTIMATED SPORTS AND RECREATIONAL
EYE INJURIES ANNUALLY BY AGE GROUP

   

Age Groups

Sport/Recreational Activity

Total

Under 5

5-14

15-24

25-64

65+

Basketball

5,900

0

1,067

3,132

1,701

0

Baseball

5,518

160

2,705

1,595

1,058

0

Racquet & Court Sports*

3,052

80

868

468

1,516

120

Swimming & Pool Sports

2,538

330

909

330

969

0

Football

2,310

0

1,025

806

479

0

Ball Sports (unspecified)

1,619

76

1,028

322

193

0

Soccer

1,181

0

526

425

230

0

Golf

670

102

271

0

297

0

Combatives**

355

0

229

126

0

0

Hockey (all types)

153

0

107

0

46

0

Total Selected Sports

23,296

748

8,735

7,204

6,489

120

Other Sports & Recreational Activities***

8,492

763

2,709

2,278

2,640

102

Total - All Sports & Recreational Activities

31,788

1,511

11,444

9,482

9,129

222

* Racquet and court sports include: racquetball, tennis, squash, paddleball, badminton, handball, and volleyball.
** Combatives include: wrestling, boxing, and martial arts.
*** Other sports and recreational activities include: all other sport and recreational related product codes.