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Title: Are hidden Vision Problems holding your kid back in Sports?


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Dr Shalini Jains Samyak Eye Care Clinic
  • Are hidden Vision Problems holding your kid back
    in Sports?

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Are hidden Vision Problems holding your kid back
in Sports?
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Are hidden Vision Problems holding your kid back
in Sports?
  • The strength, determination and effort of your
    child are important for helping them do well in
    sports and games, but a small compromise in their
    vision can ruin their overall performance. Your
    childs ability to perform well in sports is
    hugely dependent on their visual skills. The
    physical fitness of your child will be
    compromised if they are not visually fit. Most of
    the children who had problems with seeing or
    reading at school have also been found to have
    difficulties in their sports performance. The
    vision problems that impair the reading and
    learning abilities of your child can also affect
    their sports performance.
  • A comprehensive eye test can help in determining
    any vision problems that are affecting their
    sports. It is important to watch out for signs of
    difficulties while performing sports due to
    vision problems as it can occur in children and
    or adults. If your child seems to be facing any
    difficulties performing well in sports or games,
    you should seek the help of an eye specialist to
    undergo sports vision testing.

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Problems to Watch out for
  • Children need vision skills like focusing, eye
    teamwork, depth perception, eye tracking and
    peripheral vision to perform well in sports.
    Children who struggle in sports with a vision
    problem may frequently strikeout in baseball,
    drop passes in football or basketball, miss short
    putts in golf, throw inaccurate football passes,
    have a poor shooting percentage in basketball,
    trip over their skates in hockey, stumble doing a
    pompom routine or consistently misjudge hitting a
    tennis ball.
  • You may assume that your child is having a vision
    problem if they show general signs like having a
    lack of balance, rhythm and timing and
    concentration, clumsiness, careless steps, blunt
    reflexes, poor hand-eye coordination, performance
    inconsistency, getting frustrated when playing
    sports, experiencing headaches and fatigue,
    little improvement with practice and making
    errors or sitting on the bench more often. If
    your child enjoys sports but seems to be having
    some difficulties in being the best athlete it
    can be a potential sign of a sports vision
    problem. A vision problem may keep your child
    from performing well in sports.

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Ensure Regular Eye Testing
  • If your child is active in sports, it is
    important to regularly evaluate their sports
    adeptness and explore ways to refine it. Children
    with a 20/20 vision can still be suffering from
    functional vision problems that obstruct them
    from performing their best in sports activities.
    A basic eye examination doesnt test for any of
    the near-vision skills that your child requires
    to succeed in sports. This is why it is important
    to regularly undergo comprehensive eye test near
    me to stay ahead of vision problems that may be
    contributing to your childs sports woes. An
    evaluation of the complete visual skill of your
    child will be the first step to identifying any
    deficiency of necessary visual skills or
    determining whether any sports-specific visual
    skills need to be enhanced.

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Importance of Eye-Hand Coordination
  • You should be aware that the coordination of your
    childs hands and eyes is important for
    accomplishing sports skills. Eye-hand
    coordination itself is a self-explanatory
    function crucial for skills like precisely
    catching a ball, throwing an accurate pass,
    swishing consecutive free throws or putting the
    bat on the ball. The strength of your childs
    visual connection between eyes, brain and hands
    impacts the effective eye-hand coordination of
    your child.

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How Vision Therapy Can Help in Sports Vision
  • Do you ever notice that a vision problem is
    blocking your child from outperforming their
    competition? A professionally supervised vision
    training program by a pediatric eye specialist
    near me may help to improve their visual skills
    to perform more effectively in sports. In some
    cases, practice and hard work can improve
    eye-hand coordination, but vision therapy is the
    most effective program that can ideally
    strengthen your childs visual system. Similar to
    physiotherapy for sports injury, vision therapy
    trains the brain to control the eyes to function
    optimally. Children who already have good visual
    skills can benefit from vision therapy to improve
    visual efficiency and eye-hand coordination.
  • What every successful athlete you know would have
    in common is an exception of hand-eye
    coordination. If your child is interested in
    athletics, you should start vision therapy for
    them at the best eye hospital near me so that
    they will have the ability to achieve greater
    success.
  • Give us a call to schedule a vision evaluation
    for your child and to get recommendations for an
    optimal vision therapy program to improve your
    childs sports performance.

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Contact Us
  • Address Gaur Gravity Complex,
  • Opposite Chandra Laxmi
    Hospital
  • Sector- 4 Vaishali, Ghaziabad
    UP,
  • Pin 201010
  • Phone 91 9582160700, 9718160700, 9899960700
  • Email info_at_samyakeyecare.com
  • Link https//www.samyakeyecare.com/
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