Boost your Sports with Contact Lenses

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Whether you are an amateur player or a professional athlete, having clear & sharp vision is what you require the most. Since glasses limit mobility, they do not seem to be a witty option for vision correction. Contact lenses on the other hand, proves to be a better option by ensuring enhanced peripheral vision and that too without compromising at comfort or restricting mobility during sports.

Glasses run the risk of injuries. With glasses it is almost impossible to fully concentrate on your game. They keep you busy in settling your falling frames back at your nose bridge every other second. They also fog up, reduce the peripheral angles & get in the way. Contact lenses contrarily, are considered ideal for all sports activities from racquet games, to ball games and even for stunt games.

Contact lenses are also the best pick for adventurous activities like Tandem Jump & Snorkeling

Games that benefited most by Contact Lenses

1. Racquet Games:

Games such as tennis, squash, badminton, ping pong etc. would be more entertaining if you don’t have to worry about your glasses falling off every time you hit a shot.

2. Ball Games:

Ball games require full concentration & 360 degree field of vision. From cricket to football, basket-ball, volleyball & netball; you can’t risk to lose focus even for a second. Messing with glasses whilst playing games could risk in embarrassment & failure. Contact lenses provide better peripheral vision along with ensuring freedom in mobility & liberty from obstructions created by frames.

3. Cycling Sports

Sports like cycling need you to be 100 % fit. Imagine a bumpy cycling race with a fidgeting pair of frames. You are also made to wear protective wear such as helmets that do not usually accommodate glasses. You definitely can’t fuss over glasses. Indeed; wearing contact lenses is the desperate need of the game.

4. Stunt Games & Adventurous Activities

Have you ever been through the pain of Bungee jumping with glasses? Glasses are extremely dangerous here. In case they get smashed whilst you jump the flying shards of the frames will injure your eyes. The loss can be irrevocable. Prefer contact lenses over glasses to prevent yourself from a fatal damage.

Best Contact Lenses for Sports:

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Try UV protection contact lenses. These lenses do not only alter your vision for better but also prevent them from harmful UV rays when you playing sports outdoors. If you are an active sportsman you would want to have monthly disposable contact lenses to ease down the maintenance.  

Contact Lenses for Sports: Contact Lenses for Swimmers

It is strictly prohibited to wear contact lenses in any kind of water related activity; be it aggressive sports or simply about drawing water from hot/tubs, taps & showers etc. Water carries microorganism; “Acanthamoeba” that is devouring to cornea & is noted to induce permanent blindness in the victims. Similarly; swimmers must not risk their eyes wearing contact lenses during the swim. This however; raises the concerns about how should such swimmers deal with vision errors?

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Swimmers with Vision Errors: Over-Night Contact Lenses Ease Myopia & Hyperopia in Swimmers

There are other options available for swimmers with nearsightedness & far-sightedness today. Until recently; there had been no other option than going under the knife but today a new technology named as “orthokeratology (ortho-K) treats vision errors temporarily over-night by reshaping the cornea.

“Ortho-K” or “Corneal Reshaping” makes use of special type of GP contact lenses which happen to treat refractive index errors whilst you sleep wearing such over-night contact lenses. These over-night GP circle lenses equip you up with 20/20 vision for the next day; liberating you from glasses or prescription contact lenses.

The reshaping of cornea by over-night contacts is temporary; therefore they have to be worn every night. Both children & adults are the successful candidates for these contact lenses. However; talking to your doctor is obligatory.

"It was wonderful to hurl myself into the ocean and not worry about contact lenses" says Patrick Barkham, The Guardian.

Swimmers therefore can wear GP lenses to help treat short-sightedness overnight. This way; they can dive, dump & swim with perfect vision yet without any interference of glasses!

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