Sports Vision includes:
• Basic optometric care
• Correction of any visual defects
• Glasses/Sports Eyewear
• Contact Lenses
• Refractive surgery including laser eye surgery
• Specific Vision Training
• Improving reaction time
• Improving speed of acquisition of 3D
• Improving visual perceptual skills
• Improving consistency of fixation
• Improving consistency and accuracy of eye movements
• Improving Eye-to-hand and eye-to-body accuracy
• Expanding peripheral awareness
Media
The Star
Saturday 11th of July 2009
Whelan's got a clear advantage in decider
Ciaran Whelan will have perfect vision in tomorrow's Leinster football final against Kildare. And that's because he had laser eye surgery earlier this year to correct a slight defect in his sight that meant he had to wear contact lenses during games.
More than once he could be seen down on hands and knees searching for a lens that popped out during the action, but those days are behind him.
"Ciaran was minus three in both eyes and following a detailed consultation he was deemed to be a suitable candidate for surgery," said Arthur Cummings, who performed the procedure.
"It took 20 minutes and literally he was able to see clearly within a day of it, which was a complete success.
"He then played a major game under lights just one week later without the inconvenience of contact lenses."
Laser eye surgery is growing in popularity in Ireland amongst people tired of wearing glasses or contacts. It is particularly appealing to sportspeople, who need perfect sight and fear losing a contact during a game.
Bench
Whelan will start on the bench against the Lilywhites in what is his 14th Championship campaign.
But the veteran midfielder will play some part in the game and he has come on in both of the Dubs' matches this summer.
He mad his debut in 1996 under Mickey Whelan, who was later hounded out of the Dublin manager's job.
The elder Whelan is back as coach under boss Pat Gilroy this year and the big midfielder was happy to see his return.
"In '96 he'd taken over a team that had just got over the line and won an All-Ireland and there were a fair few egos in the dressing room," he said.
"Mickey came in with a very different style of training.
"Ironically in the training Mickey did in '96 and '97, he did everything with the football and that's the way most teams are training nowadays.
"The team of '95 felt they had to be doing 400 – and 800-metre sprints and running laps that they had done the previous year and that had won them"
