Sport Vision

Lecture + Exercises + Seminar: 3 + 3 + 0

Course Aims: To be able to evaluate and analyse visual performance of an athlete. To be able to improve visual performance of athletes through various vision training programs and using visual aids. To understand which refractive error correction methods are appropriate for each type of sport (corrective glasses, contact lenses, refractive surgery). To understand the connection between our eyes and our body. Students will learn how to design a vision training program to improve performance of athletes and how to use most common Sport Vision equipment in optometric practice. Also, they will gain knowledge about eye-hand, eye-foot and eye-body communication and the ability to recommend the best type of refraction error correction.