Association of sports vision with age, gender, and static visual acuity among nonathletic population

Autor: Wei-Min Chen, Chiun-Ho Hou, Lai-Chu See, Yen-Hsiu Liu, Wei-Sheng Peng, Ken-Kuo Lin, Ai-Yin Lim, Shih-Tsung Chang, Jiahn-Shing Lee
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Taiwan Journal of Ophthalmology. 12:53
ISSN: 2211-5056
DOI: 10.4103/tjo.tjo_60_20
Popis: Excellent vision is essential to performing well in sports. Sports vision includes visual, perceptual, cognitive, and oculomotor tasks that enable athletes to process and respond to what is seen. We aimed to examined how sports vision parameters - dynamic visual acuity (DVA), eye movement (EM), peripheral vision (PV), and momentary vision (MV) - varied with age and sex and assessed how static visual acuity (SVA) affect sports vision performance.Sports vision was assessed at 45 cm distance at best-corrected SVA in 310 nonathletic participants (age, 6-60 years). Among these 310 participants, 108 university students underwent their sports vision test at 45 cm and 2.5 m distance, with and without glasses. The 4 sports vision parameters were measured by Athlevision software package installed to a laptop. Two-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) was used to compare sports vision performance in relation to age group and sex. Repeated-measures ANOVA with 1 within-factor (4 conditions) were used to analyze how sports vision varied among the near/far distance with/without glasses conditions.DVA increased during childhood, peaked during the 20s or 30s, and gradually decreased during middle age (Low SVA in uncorrected myopia significantly interferes the performance in sport vision tests applied in this study, especially in far distance. Improve static vision, such as myopic correction, may significantly improve sports vision, which is important in athletic performance and safety.
Databáze: OpenAIRE