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Abstract #47705 Published in IGR 13-4
Visual function and sport. Physiological and pathological data
Corbe CScience and Sports 2011;
For practising sports, vision is a major sensorial element whatsoever sport level is concerned. The vision is based on a sensorial system and the eye picks up the information. This information conveys through retina, visual ways and brain. Throughout this process, filtration or amplification mechanisms, plurimodal and multisensorial mechanisms, cognitive mechanisms, paying attention and memorizing mechanisms are playing an essential role. This so perfect and rather complex construction can be easily damaged when the eye is wounded. Practising a sport may expose the eyes to damageable traumatisms. The subsequent secondary effects would be a decline of the visual capacity and consequently a decline of the athletic performance. Finally, "sport doctors" and coaches focus on the physical preparation, heart ventilation, cardiovascular monitoring, but they should not forgot the visual system which has an essential role as the brain is in an hermetically closed box and can only react when receiving relevant information of which 80% come from vision. Most injuries involve the cornea due to penetration of small foreign bodies. Direct or indirect shock can have secondary consequences such as glaucoma, cataract or retinal injury. The secondary effects can be measured in terms of visual acuity. (copyright) 2011. LA: French
C. Corbe. Conseil medical de l'aeronautique civile, 3, place de Fontenoy, 75007 Paris, France, . Email: christian.corbe@orange.fr
Classification:
9.4.7 Glaucomas associated with ocular trauma (Part of: 9 Clinical forms of glaucomas > 9.4 Glaucomas associated with other ocular and systemic disorders)
