Do your glasses get in the way during sport? We have a solution for you!
Every athlete knows how big a limitation prescription glasses are. And not only top athletes, but recreational ones too. And although they say you can get used to anything, this does not entirely apply to wearing corrective aids. Some sports simply cannot be done with glasses, and contact lenses have their limits too. However, if you do not want to give up your favourite activities, we have a solution.
Those of you who have been wearing glasses for quite some time could probably name dozens of activities, professions and also sports where your glasses get in the way. And today's article is about exactly these problems with corrective aids during sport. We will tell you what you have to be prepared for if your eyesight is getting worse, and also how to get rid of poor eyesight and corrective aids for good.
Before we look at the biggest complications that poor eyesight brings, we need to say which eye defects cause blurred vision. Put very simply, it is basically all refractive errors and most eye diseases.
Short-sightedness shows itself as blurred distance vision, long-sightedness as blurred near vision. After the age of forty, everyone loses the ability to focus at very short distances, which is a clear sign of the onset of presbyopia, popularly also called "short arm syndrome". From then on, without so-called reading glasses, you cannot read the messages on your mobile phone or your favourite book. Unsharp vision is also caused by astigmatism, which is caused by an irregular shape of the cornea.
Of the serious eye diseases in which the patient loses visual acuity, we can mention, for example, age-related macular degeneration or cataract, which mainly affects people of senior age; the only way to get rid of it is to replace the clouded lens with an artificial one.
As we wrote above, we could find dozens of different limitations and problems caused by prescription glasses, but also by contact lenses. Let us now look at the most common ones.
When it comes to sport, we cannot start with anything other than safety. Classic prescription glasses are unsuitable for many types of sport. Apart from classic individual contact sports such as karate, boxing or judo, you cannot do team sports with glasses either. So if you do not want to give up hockey, football, handball, basketball or volleyball, you will have to dig deeper into your pocket and get special sports glasses. Or rely on contact lenses. However, these can shift or fall out during the game. If this happens to you and you have no spares, the game is over for you. At the same time, contact lenses are not suitable, for example, for beach football or beach volleyball.
One of the most common problems with prescription glasses is undoubtedly the (im)possibility of replacing them immediately. It is a general problem that does not only concern sport. Almost every owner of prescription glasses will at some point forget them somewhere, lose them or damage them. And since it is not usual for us to carry spare glasses, this can really lead to a big problem. And if we say even a life-threatening one, we will not be exaggerating. Can you imagine driving a car in the evening without your glasses?
In this case, contact lenses can be a suitable alternative. These can be replaced relatively quickly. Even if you do not have spares with you, you can pop into the nearest optician's and buy a new pack. But as we wrote above, contact lenses are not without limitations either when it comes to sport.
Enjoying your summer holiday to the full, fooling around with the children in the water or trying water skiing, for example, is not recommended with prescription glasses, nor with contact lenses. You can protect the lenses to some extent if you wear swimming goggles or a diving mask while you are in the water. Otherwise, you have to be prepared for significant limitations. If you go into the water without corrective aids, your ability to orient yourself will get worse, which can be dangerous especially for older people. If you go into the sea with your children without glasses or lenses and you are short-sighted, make sure you always keep them close to you. If they move more than 5 metres away, you may have trouble finding them.
We have left one of the most popular sports activities until last – running. But basically the same also applies to cycling or roller skating. Besides improving or maintaining physical fitness, these sports also have a very positive effect on our mind. And, you may not believe it, on our eyesight too. In nature there are many stimuli that make us focus into the distance. This balances out near focusing, which is a big problem of our times. Sedentary jobs and long hours in front of a computer screen take our eyesight away. At the same time, doing sport in nature relieves us of stress and helps release tension. However, you cannot run very well with prescription glasses, and without them you cannot take in everything nature has to offer. And that is a shame, don't you think?
Further complications for patients with glasses come with the winter season. Everyone experiences lenses fogging up when going from the cold into the warm. However, this is not such a problem, as the fog clears after a while. A bigger problem is glasses for winter sports enthusiasts, especially those who do not use contact lenses. Ordinary prescription glasses are dangerous. In a fall they can break and seriously injure not only the eyes but the whole face. Some models do not fit under ski goggles, so they are basically unusable, especially in bad weather. And again, if they get damaged or forgotten, you have one more problem. You will not fully enjoy skiing or sledging with your children.
To get rid of prescription glasses and contact lenses, only one thing is needed: to have good eyesight. We probably have not helped you much with that answer, have we? Of course, there is more to it. Sharp eyesight will be restored to you by laser eye surgery.
Did a shiver just run down your spine at the thought of someone operating on one of the most sensitive organs in your body? Fears of eye surgery are completely unnecessary. Laser eye operations are in fact among the safest operations of all. The modern methods that are part of the iClinic portfolio are painless, fast and carry a minimal risk of post-operative complications for the patient. This is thanks to the use of top-class femtolasers, which are extremely precise and gentle and delicate to the eyes. The new VISUMAX 800 femtosecond laser will rid you of your dioptres in less than 10 seconds. This is something incredible for surgeons and patients alike. Everything is actually done before the doctor has time to say anything.
This type of laser is used, for example, in a truly revolutionary method of vision correction - ReLEx SMILE PRO. In this method, the femtosecond laser performs most of the procedure. Within a few seconds it creates an incision in the cornea only two to three millimetres in size. The doctor then removes a part of the cornea in the shape of a small disc through this incision. This part contains the dioptres or astigmatism that need to be removed. The cornea thus remains firm and intact. Unlike older methods, this method does not disrupt the surface of the cornea. The result is an immediate wow effect from better vision and a very short recovery. The patient can function normally on the evening of the day of the procedure. Seven days after the operation they can do sport again.
The second approach to correcting vision defects is replacing the lens with an artificial one. As standard, this is done after the age of forty, when presbyopia begins to show in the patient. In this case, too, we can recommend femtolaser surgery – FEMTO Z-Prelex, in which the laser replaces scalpels and other sharp surgical instruments. Thanks to the new trifocal lens, the patient gets rid for good not only of presbyopia, but also of short-sightedness and long-sightedness. At the same time, they secure the only one-hundred-percent prevention against the development of cataract, as it does not form on an artificial lens.
Those of you who have been wearing glasses for quite some time could probably name dozens of activities, professions and also sports where your glasses get in the way. And today's article is about exactly these problems with corrective aids during sport. We will tell you what you have to be prepared for if your eyesight is getting worse, and also how to get rid of poor eyesight and corrective aids for good.
Blurred vision can be caused by many eye defects and diseases
Before we look at the biggest complications that poor eyesight brings, we need to say which eye defects cause blurred vision. Put very simply, it is basically all refractive errors and most eye diseases.Short-sightedness shows itself as blurred distance vision, long-sightedness as blurred near vision. After the age of forty, everyone loses the ability to focus at very short distances, which is a clear sign of the onset of presbyopia, popularly also called "short arm syndrome". From then on, without so-called reading glasses, you cannot read the messages on your mobile phone or your favourite book. Unsharp vision is also caused by astigmatism, which is caused by an irregular shape of the cornea.
Of the serious eye diseases in which the patient loses visual acuity, we can mention, for example, age-related macular degeneration or cataract, which mainly affects people of senior age; the only way to get rid of it is to replace the clouded lens with an artificial one.
Prescription glasses: you also have to reckon with these limitations
As we wrote above, we could find dozens of different limitations and problems caused by prescription glasses, but also by contact lenses. Let us now look at the most common ones.
Dangerous not only in contact sports
When it comes to sport, we cannot start with anything other than safety. Classic prescription glasses are unsuitable for many types of sport. Apart from classic individual contact sports such as karate, boxing or judo, you cannot do team sports with glasses either. So if you do not want to give up hockey, football, handball, basketball or volleyball, you will have to dig deeper into your pocket and get special sports glasses. Or rely on contact lenses. However, these can shift or fall out during the game. If this happens to you and you have no spares, the game is over for you. At the same time, contact lenses are not suitable, for example, for beach football or beach volleyball.
Lost or damaged glasses cannot be replaced instantly
One of the most common problems with prescription glasses is undoubtedly the (im)possibility of replacing them immediately. It is a general problem that does not only concern sport. Almost every owner of prescription glasses will at some point forget them somewhere, lose them or damage them. And since it is not usual for us to carry spare glasses, this can really lead to a big problem. And if we say even a life-threatening one, we will not be exaggerating. Can you imagine driving a car in the evening without your glasses?
In this case, contact lenses can be a suitable alternative. These can be replaced relatively quickly. Even if you do not have spares with you, you can pop into the nearest optician's and buy a new pack. But as we wrote above, contact lenses are not without limitations either when it comes to sport.
Water is the enemy not only of glasses, but also of lenses
Enjoying your summer holiday to the full, fooling around with the children in the water or trying water skiing, for example, is not recommended with prescription glasses, nor with contact lenses. You can protect the lenses to some extent if you wear swimming goggles or a diving mask while you are in the water. Otherwise, you have to be prepared for significant limitations. If you go into the water without corrective aids, your ability to orient yourself will get worse, which can be dangerous especially for older people. If you go into the sea with your children without glasses or lenses and you are short-sighted, make sure you always keep them close to you. If they move more than 5 metres away, you may have trouble finding them.
Running also has positive effects on the mind. With poor eyesight you miss out on them
We have left one of the most popular sports activities until last – running. But basically the same also applies to cycling or roller skating. Besides improving or maintaining physical fitness, these sports also have a very positive effect on our mind. And, you may not believe it, on our eyesight too. In nature there are many stimuli that make us focus into the distance. This balances out near focusing, which is a big problem of our times. Sedentary jobs and long hours in front of a computer screen take our eyesight away. At the same time, doing sport in nature relieves us of stress and helps release tension. However, you cannot run very well with prescription glasses, and without them you cannot take in everything nature has to offer. And that is a shame, don't you think?
Winter is not kind to glasses
Further complications for patients with glasses come with the winter season. Everyone experiences lenses fogging up when going from the cold into the warm. However, this is not such a problem, as the fog clears after a while. A bigger problem is glasses for winter sports enthusiasts, especially those who do not use contact lenses. Ordinary prescription glasses are dangerous. In a fall they can break and seriously injure not only the eyes but the whole face. Some models do not fit under ski goggles, so they are basically unusable, especially in bad weather. And again, if they get damaged or forgotten, you have one more problem. You will not fully enjoy skiing or sledging with your children.
How to get rid of corrective aids once and for all?
To get rid of prescription glasses and contact lenses, only one thing is needed: to have good eyesight. We probably have not helped you much with that answer, have we? Of course, there is more to it. Sharp eyesight will be restored to you by laser eye surgery.Did a shiver just run down your spine at the thought of someone operating on one of the most sensitive organs in your body? Fears of eye surgery are completely unnecessary. Laser eye operations are in fact among the safest operations of all. The modern methods that are part of the iClinic portfolio are painless, fast and carry a minimal risk of post-operative complications for the patient. This is thanks to the use of top-class femtolasers, which are extremely precise and gentle and delicate to the eyes. The new VISUMAX 800 femtosecond laser will rid you of your dioptres in less than 10 seconds. This is something incredible for surgeons and patients alike. Everything is actually done before the doctor has time to say anything.
This type of laser is used, for example, in a truly revolutionary method of vision correction - ReLEx SMILE PRO. In this method, the femtosecond laser performs most of the procedure. Within a few seconds it creates an incision in the cornea only two to three millimetres in size. The doctor then removes a part of the cornea in the shape of a small disc through this incision. This part contains the dioptres or astigmatism that need to be removed. The cornea thus remains firm and intact. Unlike older methods, this method does not disrupt the surface of the cornea. The result is an immediate wow effect from better vision and a very short recovery. The patient can function normally on the evening of the day of the procedure. Seven days after the operation they can do sport again.
The second approach to correcting vision defects is replacing the lens with an artificial one. As standard, this is done after the age of forty, when presbyopia begins to show in the patient. In this case, too, we can recommend femtolaser surgery – FEMTO Z-Prelex, in which the laser replaces scalpels and other sharp surgical instruments. Thanks to the new trifocal lens, the patient gets rid for good not only of presbyopia, but also of short-sightedness and long-sightedness. At the same time, they secure the only one-hundred-percent prevention against the development of cataract, as it does not form on an artificial lens.
