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The Risks of Vision Corrections in Combat Sports

As combat sports are truculent and tough, sudden movements and trauma to eyes are always part of the games. People with eyesight problems must wear eye corrections to see clearly, as contacts are more convenient than spectacles that they are widely used in sports. However, eyes easily get hurt, particularly when wearing the contact lenses. So rules and regulations about the wearing of vision corrections should be set down to protect athlete’s eyes.

Rules and regulations can differ depending on which country you live and which event you participate. It is advisable to inform the coordinator about the related visual impairment and use of vision corrections. Then the participator will understand whether it is suitable to wear contacts or eyeglasses in this game. In fact, in some kinds of sports, not wearing vision corrections, though you have eyesight problem, may have a greater help to your performance than wearing one pair as the contacts may limit your exertion. For example, in some combat sports, your opponents are always near, you can see them clearly most of the time and you can act well without vision corrections. However, if your opponents are far away, you cannot see them well without the help of vision corrections. Of course, your performance will not be that satisfying.

The risks of wearing contacts are quite obvious. One is that if your contacts are not fit firmly in your eyes, they are likely to fall out during the game. So at the preparation period before the game, you had better be sure the contacts are properly fitted in eyes. You can ask your eye doctor to design the accurate base curve and axis values of lenses for you to ensure your contacts are well-fitted.

There is one point that you should learn by heart. That is eye surgery is completely forbidden in combat sports because it will increase the risk of eyes being damaged. As wlasikw, medical procedures like eye LASIK surgery are based on the following process: a piece of cornea is lifted for the removal of underlying tissue, and then the piece is replaced and restored. After some time, the cutting place can heals gradually, but there must always be a microscopic edge exists. Any additional hit can cause serious damage of eyes, so it is very dangerous and not worthy trying to take corrective eye surgery.

As a matter of fact, the best way to solve the eye damages in combat sports for athletes with eyesight problems is to use progressive sports glasses, as they can bear tough environment and are very firm. Plus, remember that sports eyewear should be differently designed according to different kinds of activities.

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Were monocles worn because only one eye needed correction?

Or was it that the wearers preferred them to spectacles, but chose only to correct one eye?
Kasumica, I think they must have required correction in at least one eye, or they would have had a plain glass monocle, if that is what you are suggesting.

Monocles were worn in order to correct for presbyopia (age related long sight). This practice is very common today, instead of using monocles, one manipulates the prescription of contact lenses or performs a planned laser treatment to give the same result.

It works like this: people who have emmetropia (normal distance vision) have difficulty reading in from their late 30′s/40′s (presbyopia) as the lens muscles no longer accommodate for distance and near vision as well as they used to. In order to correct this you can wear a pair of reading glasses. However, another way around this is to have one corrected for distance vision and the other for near vision. The monocle would have been used to to induce myopia of around -1.50 in the non-dominant eye. The brain does the rest allowing one to read quite well and see in the distance quite well.

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