Vision Options for Athletes & Sports Enthusiasts

Contact Lenses and Glasses That Enhance Performance
Choose from products that offer eye protection, color enhancement, light control, convenience or a combination of features. What's best for your sport? Also, read the results of a study that correlates sports performance with wearing vision correction.

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Keeping Their Eyes on the Gold
Learn how Olympic athletes and hopefuls are optimizing their visual skills to prepare for the 2008 Beijing games.

What Sports Vision Specialists Can Do for You
A sports vision specialist may improve your game in just one visit ... or through a comprehensive training program.

How to Find a Good Sports Vision Doctor
Whom to ask and where to look.

Sports Vision Tests and Therapies
Need to improve your eye-hand-body coordination? Your ability to track a moving object? Maybe you have a problem with depth perception. Sports vision therapy aims to treat a wide variety of problems that athletes face.

Peter Falk, Dennis Haysbert and Michael Chiklis wore polarized sunglasses by Carrera during a recent fundraising golf tournament. Wes Craven was also there, wearing Yves St Laurent sunglasses. Also shown: sunglasses with lenses designed especially for golfers. Click on photo for close-ups & style names.

Eye Safety

Protective Eyewear for Sports
Learn which sports pose a danger to your eyes, what features to look for in sports eyewear, and how to get a good fit for your children.

Eyewear for Skiing
Eyewear for skiing ranges from full goggles to styles that look like sunglasses. Look for materials that withstand the cold and resist shattering on impact. Also, learn which lenses work best for skiers.

Buy Smarter: Ski Goggles
Read tips on what features to look for in your ski and snowboarding goggles, getting the best fit, and where to shop.

Eyewear for Water Sports
Can't see without your eyeglasses or contact lenses? You actually have quite a few choices of eyewear that will help you see what you're doing underwater.

Shooting Glasses
"You'll shoot your eye out, kid!" Ralphie hears it over and over in A Christmas Story, and it's a real concern, though not the only one. Learn what safety features to look for, and which lens types and colors are best, whether you're hunting or target shooting.

[Page updated February 2008]