By Graham B. Erickson OD FAAO FCOVD
From simple eye care companies to visible functionality enhancement education, this evidence-based source explores quite a lot of activities imaginative and prescient providers, addressing a few of the questions you could have relating to evaluation and therapy methods, end result expectancies, and purposes to activity. you will discover a radical overview and dialogue of the function of imaginative and prescient care in an athlete's functionality, in addition to functional strategies for using present examine findings to scientific perform. The accompanying CD-ROM helps you to simply print your individual copies and models of assessment types, screening varieties, pattern profiles, and sufferer handouts, plus different samples and assets utilized in buyer review and training!
- Evidence-based details covers quite a lot of activities imaginative and prescient services.
- A job research procedure used in the course of the textual content permits the reader to enhance sturdy reasoning talents and review info wanted for scientific practice.
- Coverage of pursuits, expectancies, and techniques assists in opting for the remedies for a mess of sports.
- Practical, clinically orientated chapters on evaluation, prescribing, and ocular accidents give you the crucial details wanted for scientific perform in an easy-to-use reference.
- Addresses imaginative and prescient education from the qualified athletic trainer's (ATC) viewpoint, reflecting the collaboration among athletic running shoes, optometrists, and ophthalmologists in handling athletes.
- Visual aids together with photos, tables, and boxed textual content support to explain vital thoughts and make allowance ease of entry to special information.
- A CD-ROM is incorporated permitting easy accessibility to big assets utilized in shopper evaluate and training.
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The athlete is frequently required to preserve balance while the oculomotor system is engaged in pursuit, saccadic, and/or vergence eye movements. 160-162 Balance maintenance may also be affected by the athlete’s relative field dependence or independence, which refers to the cognitive style of processing information to discern relevant stimuli from an irrelevant stimulus background. 167 Much is still to be discovered concerning the use of visual, vestibular, 28 CHAPTER 3 Visual Information Processing in Sports and other sensory information to make discrete and accurate adjustments in balance during sports.
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