Maintaining Eye Safety During Sports

“We wear all kinds of protective guards when playing sports – elbow and knee pads when skating or biking, full body gear during football and rugby, mouth guards for all kinds of sports, helmets of all kinds, and so much more. One area of sports safety where too many of us overlook the need for protective guards is eye safety.
After all, during almost any sort of athletic competition or performance we can scratch, hit, or somehow harm the eye. While goggles are a given when you are a swimmer, almost every other sport requires eye safety too – even when you don’t wear prescription glasses.

Just consider this for a moment – is there any logic to avoiding protective eyewear? Yes, it can make you look a bit goofy, but the padding isn’t exactly chic either, is it?

Wearing the proper eye gear can prevent a bone fracture around the eye, protect the cornea, and eliminate threats to your vision. The list of ways in which your eyes’ safety can be compromised during sports is almost endless, but maintaining eye safety during games is a simple thing. All you need to do is to wear the appropriate eye gear, but that does mean different eye gear for various games.”

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