ABOUT SPORTS VISION AND PERFORMANCE VISION

Sports and performance vision specializes in helping you get the most out of your vision, empowering you to perform a given sport or activity at an optimum level.

SPORTS VISION

Athletics takes special skill, and optimal visual abilities. All sports require good vision, our goal is to provide all athletes the best visual abilities possible to provide the winning edge!

• A wide range of evidence based interventions
• Scientifically based on peer reviewed research
• Interventions range from refractive (glasses/contact lenses) correction to visuo-motor training
• Flexible booking times

PERFORMANCE VISION

Not only athletes require optimal visual function. All of us, from drivers to those with low-vision can benefit from what we have learned from athletes.

• Sharpness, ability to see in low contrast, and seeing quickly are all important for everyone
• Hand-Eye Coordination is the basis for everything we do
• Make an appointment to see how we can help you “see” more efficiently
• QuietEye™ Evaluation and Sports Performance Training

Recent work by Dr Laby with one of the best ...

In Winter/Spring 2021, Dr. Laby worked with Trent Alexander Arnold on a project, sponsored by RedBull, to test and improve this Premier League player's visual ability on the pitch - following the Sports Vision Pyramid concept ... Not only did his play for Liverpool FC improve, but he was selected for the England National Team as well!

“MY PASSION IS MOTIVATING PEOPLE TO GET RESULTS”

~ Dr Daniel M. Laby

The field of Sports and Performance Vision has grown at a logarithmic pace over the past several decades. Both the quality and the quantity of scientific research has allowed what used to be available only in scientific laboratories to now be available for everyone.

In order to understand Sports and Performance Vision, consider a pyramid, as in the sports vision pyramid above. Everyone’s goal is to achieve optimal performance at the top of the pyramid. To get there, though, one must build a stable and proportional pyramid from the bottom up. Starting with visual abilities that are related to each of our eyes, then building upon that for optimal use of the two eyes together, followed by the optimization of how the brain analyzes and uses the visual information and then how motor actions are initiated as a result of vision we have the best chance of reaching our goal of maximal ability, whether in sports or in life as a whole.

SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS

A SELECTED LIST

1. Laby DM, Kirschen DK, Govindarajulu U, DeLand P: The Hand-Eye Coordination of Professional Baseball Players: The effect on batting. Submitted for publication
2. Laby DM, Kirschen DK: The Refractive Error of Professional Baseball Players. Optometry and Vision Science, 2017; 94(5): 564-73
3. Laby DM: Sports Vision. American Academy of Ophthalmology Focal Points Series, 32(8), 2014, August
4. Laby DM and Kirschen DG Thoughts on Ocular Dominance – Is it really a preference? Eye and Contact Lens: Science and Clinical Practice, 2011; 37(3): 140-144
5. Laby DM, Kirschen DG, Pantall, P: The Visual Function of Olympic Athletes – An Initial Report. Eye and Contact Lens: Science and Clinical Practice, 2011; 37(3): 116-122
6. Kirschen DG and Laby DM. The Role of Sports Vision in Eye Care Today. Eye and Contact Lens: Science and Clinical Practice, 2011; 37(3): 127-130
7. Laby DM, Kirschen DG, Goldstein M. Guest Editorial – Eye and Contact Lens Sports Vision Special Issue. Eye and Contact Lens: Science and Clinical Practice, 2011; 37(3): 114-115
8. Kirschen DG, Laby DM, Kirschen MP, Applegate R, Thibos LN: The Presence of High Order Optical Aberrations in Professional Baseball Players. Journal of Cataract and Refractive Surgery, 2010; 36(14):396-401
9. Laby DM, Kirschen DK, Strasser C: The effect of laser refractive surgery on the on-field performance of Professional Baseball Players, Journal of the American Optometric Association, 76(11):647-52, 2004
10. Laby DM, Kirschen DG, Rosenbaum AL, Mellman MF: The effect of ocular dominance on the performance of professional baseball players, Ophthalmology, 105(5): 864-66, 1998
11. Laby DM, Rosenbaum AL, Kirschen DG, Davidson JL, Rosenbaum, LJ, Strasser C., Mellman MF: The Visual function of Professional Baseball Players, American Journal of Ophthalmology, 122(4): 476-485, 1996
12. Kirschen D, Laby D, 20/20 isn’t good enough for baseball players, Argus, 1997; April issue

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