High school can be pretty tough. From midterms to final exams, dating and prom, football games, clubs, and so many daily dramas that play out, there’s a whole lot packed into those 4 years.
High school sports like football, baseball, swimming, and track can be tough, too. But they’re also great for building self-confidence and teamwork, boosting your child’s physical health, and are known to benefit them academically. So when vision problems get in the way of their athletics, it can be devastating.
That’s where vision therapy can help. Vision Therapy Doctors Name and the The Vision Therapy Center at team can help your high school athlete strengthen the visual skills they need to play the sports they love and to succeed wherever life takes them.
Kids' Vision Can Affect Athletic Performance
Did you know that vision problem can affect your child’s performance in sports? That’s because sports requires important visual skills like:
- Depth Perception: understanding the distance and speed of what they’re looking at
- Eye Teaming: how both eyes work together
- Hand-Eye and Body-Eye Coordination: how the eyes guide the hands and body to move in the right direction
- Peripheral Vision: what the eyes can see on the side without moving the head
- Visual Acuity: how they’re able to see things clearly
- Visual Reaction Time: how fast the brain processes what the eyes see
- Visual Tracking: how the eyes follow moving objects
If your high schooler struggles with any of these abilities, it can impact their game. It may even affect them emotionally by making them feel inferior to their teammates or it makes them question their sports skills altogether. Has your kids’ coach talked to you about their athletic performance?
If this happens, don’t worry - we can help.
How Does Vision Therapy Help With Athletics?
Vision Therapy Doctors Name will create a personalized vision therapy program for your child. Using a combination of eye exercises, specialized glasses, and prisms, we can retrain your son or daughter’s eyes to improve their concentration and hand-eye coordination. Our goal is to teach your child’s eyes and brain how to work together better at whatever sports they play.
Does your teen play baseball? If they have trouble seeing the ball from different directions or coming from a side angle, vision therapy can help. We can strengthen their peripheral vision and depth perception so they can see – and follow – the ball as it moves from player to player.
Is your son the quarterback? He’ll need excellent eye tracking skills to follow the direction of the football as it sails through the air.
Is your daughter a track star? To win a race, she’s got to have superior focus and eye teaming skills from start to finish.
Your high school kids are serious athletes, and they need serious skills to help them play and win.
Better Visual Skills for a Better Game
No 2 kids are alike, and neither are their vision problems. What one 10th grader struggles with on the baseball diamond can be worlds apart from what a 12th grader has a hard time with at a swim meet. That’s why The Vision Therapy Center at takes a unique approach to vision therapy.
We work closely together with you and your child to create a totally customized vision therapy program. We’ll talk about what’s important to them, their struggles, and what they hope to accomplish.
Vision Therapy Doctors Name will determine which exercises can strengthen your high schooler’s eye muscles, which therapeutic glasses or prisms will teach their eyes to focus on near and far distances, and more.
If your aspiring sports star is struggling, contact The Vision Therapy Center at . Schedule a consultation with our eye doctor and let us help your son or daughter become the kind of athlete you know they can be.