Category: Sports

Promoting Healthy Eyes and Vision in Men | Men’s Health Month

6/1/2025

Whether it's your spouse, son, dad, or friend, you likely have a male whose health you care about. Part of staying healthy includes maintaining good vision and healthy eyes. Maintaining good vision throughout a lifetime helps you remain independent, and it positively affects your overall quality of life.

But are the men in your life taking their eye health seriously and doing what they can to maintain good vision?

Prioritizing Your Eye Health for World Sight Day | World Sight Day

10/1/2024

How often do you think about your vision or your eye health? If you are like most of us, you probably do not think about your eye health often until you have an issue. Many of us take our vision for granted even though maintaining healthy eyes and good vision is essential to your overall quality of life.

Vision loss threatens employment, recreational activities, and overall independence. Various factors play a part in our vision and eye health, such as genetics, family history, medical conditions, and lifestyle factors. Some of these factors, such as our family's eye health history, are uncontrollable. However, lifestyle factors are largely controllable.

Brian Injuries and Vision: What is the Connection? | Brain Injury Awareness Month

3/1/2024

A brain injury can occur due to sudden trauma to the head. Trauma to the head is caused by various types of accidents, falls, and assaults. Injury to the brain can affect memory, thinking, learning, and movement. It may also affect vision.

Brain injuries are very common. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in the United States, in 2020, over 214,000 people were hospitalized for a brain injury.

Spotlight: Back to School Eye Health Tips for Every Age

9/1/2023

It is that time of year again when your kids return to school. Whether you have a little one in kindergarten or you have a college student, you want to help give them the best start for the school year.

One way to set your children up for success is to make sure they do not have eye or vision issues. Consider some of the following suggestions to help protect your child’s vision.

Facial Protection to Prevent Eye Trauma

9/1/2023

Trauma to the eyes can lead to various types of problems, from a black eye to a shattered globe, but a large number of eye injuries are preventable. Here’s a reminder for all of us to protect our eyes from trauma.

Fall Sports Eye Safety | Sports Eye Safety Awareness

9/1/2022

The cooler fall weather is almost here. Along with shorter days and colorful leaves, it means the start of fall sports. Fall sports season may include football, field hockey, lacrosse, and more. Although fall sports are a great way to have fun, exercise, and work as a team, it is important to take steps to protect your eyes and vision from injury.

Contact Lenses for Children: What age to start? | Contact Lens Health Week

8/1/2022

Contact lenses are not just for adults. Kids can also wear contacts as an option to glasses for correcting vision problems. But are contacts right for your kids? If so, at what age can you start? Contact Lens Health Week is from August 22nd to 26th. It is a good time to learn more about contact lenses for children.

Daily Habits that Might be Adversely Affecting Your Eyes

3/1/2022

We all want to do what is best for our health, eyes, and vision. But sometimes, we may not realize our daily habits might actually be adversely affecting our eyes in big and small ways. Learning how certain habits may have a negative impact and how to change them can help promote healthy eyes.

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