ISEC Lisboa-Instituto de Educação e Ciência de Lisboa, 1750-179 Lisboa, Portugal.
Faculty of Biomedical and Health Science, Universidad Europea de Madrid, 28670 Madrid, Spain.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 Jul 31;18(15):8147. doi: 10.3390/ijerph18158147.
Sports vision is a specialisation of optometry whose objective is to improve and preserve visual function to increase sports performance. The main objective of the present study was to compare the visual expertise of non-athletes to skeet shooting athletes.
Participants underwent an optometric assessment in which all those with severe deviations from normal vision, after compensating for visual abnormalities, were eliminated. After that, the following six visuospatial components were measured: hand-eye coordination, peripheral awareness, fixation disparity, saccadic eye movements, speed of recognition and visual memory. To measure the aforementioned components, the following tests were used: directional arrows, similar and different characters, the dichromatic disparity test, character marking, a tachistoscopic test and tic-tac-toe using COI-vision software.
Skeet shooting athletes performed significatively better ( ≤ 0.05) in two out of the six tests: hand-eye coordination and visual memory.
Although this study does not support the theory that athletes-in this case, skeet shooting athletes-perform significantly better in most components of the visuospatial tests, visual memory and hand-eye coordination are exceptions. To be more accurate in distinguishing between athletes and non-athletes, specific testing methods that can be used by a wide variety of disciplines should be developed. Training the weakest aspects of athletes can improve their sports performance.
运动视光是视光学的一个专业领域，其目标是改善和保护视觉功能，以提高运动表现。本研究的主要目的是比较非运动员和双向飞靶射击运动员的视觉专长。
参与者接受了一项视光学评估，对所有经视觉异常补偿后仍有严重视力偏差的人进行了排除。之后，测量了以下六个空间视觉成分：手眼协调、周边意识、固视差异、眼跳运动、识别速度和视觉记忆。为了测量上述成分，使用了以下测试：定向箭头、相似和不同字符、双色视差测试、字符标记、速示器测试和使用 COI-vision 软件的井字游戏。
双向飞靶射击运动员在两项测试中表现出显著更好的成绩（≤0.05）：手眼协调和视觉记忆。
尽管这项研究并不支持运动员在大多数空间视觉测试成分中表现出显著更好成绩的理论——在这种情况下，是双向飞靶射击运动员——但视觉记忆和手眼协调是例外。为了更准确地区分运动员和非运动员，应该开发出可以被广泛应用的各种学科使用的特定测试方法。训练运动员的薄弱环节可以提高他们的运动表现。
