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ABOUT SPORTS AND PERFORMANCE VISION
Sports and performance vision specializes in helping you get the most out of your vision, empowering you to perform a given sport or activity at an optimum level.
SPORTS VISION
Athletics takes special skill, and optimal visual abilities. All sports require good vision, our goal is to provide all athletes the best visual abilities possible to provide the winning edge!
- A wide range of evidence based interventions
- Scientifically based on peer reviewed research
- Interventions range from refractive (glasses/contact lenses) correction to visuo-motor training
- Flexible booking times
PERFORMANCE VISION
Not only athletes require optimal visual function. All of us, from drivers to those with low-vision can benefit from what we have learned from athletes.
- Sharpness, ability to see in low contrast, and seeing quickly are all important for everyone
- Hand-Eye Coordination is the basis for everything we do
- Make an appointment to see how we can help you “see” more efficiently
Sports Vision Pyramid
THE SCIENCE
“MY PASSION IS MOTIVATING
PEOPLE TO GET RESULTS”
The field of Sports and Performance Vision has grown at a logarithmic pace over the past several decades. Both the quality and the quantity of scientific research has allowed what used to be available only in scientific laboratories to now be available for everyone.
In order to understand Sports and Performance Vision, consider a pyramid, as in the sports vision pyramid above. Everyone’s goal is to achieve optimal performance at the top of the pyramid. To get there, though, one must build a stable and proportional pyramid from the bottom up. Starting with visual abilities that are related to each of our eyes, then building upon that for optimal use of the two eyes together, followed by the optimization of how the brain analyzes and uses the visual information and then how motor actions are initiated as a result of vision we have the best chance of reaching our goal of maximal ability, whether in sports or in life as a whole.
SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS
A SELECTED LIST
- Laby DM, Kirschen DK, Govindarajulu U, DeLand P: The Hand-Eye Coordination of Professional Baseball Players: The effect on batting. Submitted for publication
- Laby DM, Kirschen DK: The Refractive Error of Professional Baseball Players. Optometry and Vision Science, 2017; 94(5): 564-73
- Laby DM: Sports Vision. American Academy of Ophthalmology Focal Points Series, 32(8), 2014, August
- Laby DM and Kirschen DG Thoughts on Ocular Dominance – Is it really a preference? Eye and Contact Lens: Science and Clinical Practice, 2011; 37(3): 140-144
- Laby DM, Kirschen DG, Pantall, P: The Visual Function of Olympic Athletes – An Initial Report. Eye and Contact Lens: Science and Clinical Practice, 2011; 37(3): 116-122
- Kirschen DG and Laby DM. The Role of Sports Vision in Eye Care Today. Eye and Contact Lens: Science and Clinical Practice, 2011; 37(3): 127-130
- Laby DM, Kirschen DG, Goldstein M. Guest Editorial – Eye and Contact Lens Sports Vision Special Issue. Eye and Contact Lens: Science and Clinical Practice, 2011; 37(3): 114-115
- Kirschen DG, Laby DM, Kirschen MP, Applegate R, Thibos LN: The Presence of High Order Optical Aberrations in Professional Baseball Players. Journal of Cataract and Refractive Surgery, 2010; 36(14):396-401
- Laby DM, Kirschen DK, Strasser C: The effect of laser refractive surgery on the on-field performance of Professional Baseball Players, Journal of the American Optometric Association, 76(11):647-52, 2004
- Laby DM, Kirschen DG, Rosenbaum AL, Mellman MF: The effect of ocular dominance on the performance of professional baseball players, Ophthalmology, 105(5): 864-66, 1998
- Laby DM, Rosenbaum AL, Kirschen DG, Davidson JL, Rosenbaum, LJ, Strasser C., Mellman MF: The Visual function of Professional Baseball Players, American Journal of Ophthalmology, 122(4): 476-485, 1996
- Kirschen D, Laby D, 20/20 isn’t good enough for baseball players, Argus, 1997; April issue
IN THE PRESS
- Untapped Potential – Krush Performance
- Vision can give players competitive edge – Start Tribune
- Keep Your Eye on the Balls to Become a Better Athlete – The New York Times
- How Tech Can Help MLB Players Get Elite Vision To Improve Their Hitting – SportTechie
- As Evening Commute Gets Darker, It Also Gets More Dangerous, Officials Warn – The New York Times
- Growing Field Of Sports Vision Could Change The Way Athletes See The Game – CBS New York
- Putting Sports Vision into Action – SUNY
- The SUNY Doctor Who Turns Hitting Into a Real Science – The Wall Street Journal
- Krush Performance: Dr. Daniel Laby – Radio Influence
- For Winning Athletes, Excellent Vision Proves Vital – VOA News
- Dr. Anthony Alessi: Baseball demands clear vision – The Bulletin
- Protect Your Eyes During Exercise & Sports – Radio MD
- Baseball vision: When 20-20 eyesight just wont cut it – Providence Journal
- Putting baseball in focus – G Force
RECENT VIDEOS - SEARCH GOOGLE "DR LABY SPORTS" FOR MANY MORE...
1. . Youtube video of a TED talk Dr Laby gave recently https://youtu.be/fneEWj9fHuc
2. Sunday Today show piece on Dr Laby's work in baseball https://www.today.com/video/the-rise-of-special-vision-checks-in-major-league-baseball-1349433923624
ABOUT DR LABY
Dr. Daniel M. Laby began his work in sports vision more than three decades ago in professional baseball, a relationship with a team which continued for 18 seasons. Dr. Laby has also been responsible for the visual performance of many other Professional teams - Please contact Dr Laby and he will be happy to discuss his work as well as any aspect of sports vision. He has also worked with the several olympic teams prior to the Beijing olympic games in 2008 and the COVID delayed Tokyo games. He has worked with professional hockey as well as basketball teams, in additional to the highest level of soccer in the UK and worldwide. As a result of his more than a quarter century of work in sports vision, Dr Laby has gathered a database of several thousand professional and olympic level athletes, which he uses to guide interventions and treatments. Dr Laby has been fortunate to have contributed to six+ professional baseball championship teams.
In addition, Dr Laby has organized 3 International sports vision meetings and has organized and moderates the Sports Vision ListServ. He is a frequent contributor and reviewer of sports vision scientific publications and was an Assistant Clinical Professor at the Harvard Medical School and served as Director of Sports and Performance Vision at the State University of New York College of Optometry.
For details of the teams Dr Laby has worked with see EXPERIENCE portion of his LinkedIn page: (2) Daniel M. Laby, MD | LinkedIn
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