Sports Optometry

Luke Higgins Optometry is focused on giving you your best vision, so you can perform at your optimum in your chosen sport.

Luke Higgins Optometry provides tailored sports optometry consultations for all athletes and their specific sports.

 

Target Sports

The target sports have a greater emphasis on vision and vision performance then any other sports. Simply put - you can't shoot what you can't see. As an optometrist and a clay target shooter I am interested in how we utilize and train our visual system to achieve improved performance.

Optometry is perfectly placed to analyse and enhance the components that makes up vision;

• Visual acuity [how small the target can be that the human eye can see it]
• Contrast sensitivity [how well we can see a target compared to its background]
• Visual fields [how well we detect targets across our field of vision and how this allows us to detect and track targets]
• Binocular vision [how our eyes work together to give us accurate 'single' vision and depth perception]
• Eye Muscles [how eye movements help track targets]
• Colour vision [the incidence of colour deficiency within the population and ways to manage this]
• Tear film/dry eye [the importance of the ocular surface for clear vision]

 

During a sports vision consultation each of these aspects are tested.

During the sports vision consultation the following areas of sports vision are covered;

• The importance of having our best vision through spectacles and contact lenses
• Choosing correct tints for improving contrast and reducing glare symptoms but still allowing enough light through to allow our eyes to perform at their best
• Utilizing the more sensitive parts of our visual field for fast target acquisition and speed of tracking
• Eye exercises to improve tracking accuracy and to warm up our eyes before competition
• Eye dominance issues
• How to deal with colour deficiency [colour blindness].

Getting the most out of our vision has a direct correlation with improved scores on the range.

Tailored sports optometry consultations are available where Luke Higgins can visit your local club/sports ground to provide on the spot optometry advice tailored to you personally while you are in your natural sporting environment. If interested in this option – please contact with your enquiry.

Sporting Frames for Target Sports;

Perfect Score  Optics;

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