In fact sports vision consists of two levels. The first level involves working with recreational and competitive athletes in everyday practice. This requires the practitioner to take an accurate case history (including asking patients if they play sport and, if so, which sports and at what level), have strong optometric skills and the knowledge to recommend the best products and advice for patients. You will be surprised how many people coming into your practice are involved in some sporting activity (Table 1).
The second level of sports vision involves working with elite athletes and requires high-tech, expensive equipment and an extensive knowledge of binocular vision, visual perception and the neurological processing of visual information, as well as an approach which is entirely scientific and analytical.
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