| Autor: |
Sánchez-Tena MÁ; Department of Optometry and Vision, Faculty of Optics and Optometry, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 28037 Madrid, Spain.; ISEC LISBOA-Instituto Superior de Educação e Ciências, 1750-179 Lisbon, Portugal., Rodríguez-Alonso X; Department of Optometry and Vision, Faculty of Optics and Optometry, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 28037 Madrid, Spain., Martinez-Perez C; ISEC LISBOA-Instituto Superior de Educação e Ciências, 1750-179 Lisbon, Portugal., Tornero-Aguilera JF; Faculty of Sports Sciences, Universidad Europea de Madrid, 28670 Madrid, Spain.; Studies Centre in Applied Combat (CESCA), 45007 Toledo, Spain., Clemente-Suárez VJ; Faculty of Sports Sciences, Universidad Europea de Madrid, 28670 Madrid, Spain.; Studies Centre in Applied Combat (CESCA), 45007 Toledo, Spain.; Grupo de Investigación en Cultura, Educación y Sociedad, Universidad de la Costa, Barranquilla 00928-1345, Colombia., Sanchez-Ramos C; Department of Optometry and Vision, Faculty of Optics and Optometry, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 28037 Madrid, Spain.; Grupo de Investigación en Visión y Oftalmología, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Avda, Arcos de Jalón 118, 28037 Madrid, Spain., Alvarez-Peregrina C; Department of Optometry and Vision, Faculty of Optics and Optometry, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 28037 Madrid, Spain. |
| Abstrakt: |
Background: To perform motor tasks, athletes must gather a considerable amount of visual information quickly. Evidence shows that visual skills vary between athletes and non-athletes, and impact athletic performance. However, there is no scientific evidence suggesting that there are any differences between the visual skills of federated and non-federated athletes. As such, the objective of this paper was to compare how visual skills influence the sports performance of federated and non-federated athletes, respectively. Methods: A visual examination has been conducted on a total of 52 athletes between 18 and 37 years of age. The COI-Sport Vision system screen (International Optometry Center, Madrid, Spain) was used to examine static visual acuity, dynamic visual acuity, contrast sensitivity, stereopsis, fixation disparity, visual memory, identification, anticipation time, peripheral awareness, and hand-eye coordination. Results: On average, federated athletes train more hours per day than non-federated athletes (1.4 ± 0.8) (p = 0.046). A significant correlation was observed between the average time of visual memory (β = −0.0683, p < 0.001), the average time of anticipation (β = 0.006, p = 0.009), the average time of peripheral awareness (β = 0.026, p = 0.002), hand-eye coordination (β = 0.028, p = 0.004), dynamic visual acuity (β = 0.055, p < 0.001), and the number of training hours. Conclusion: Results suggest that federated athletes are more concerned about their ocular health. Nonetheless, no differences were found in the oculomotor skills of both groups. Further investigation is required to consider each sport discipline individually. |
