RT Journal Article
T1 Comparison of Visual Skills between Federated and Non-Federated Athletes
A1 Sánchez Tena, Miguel Ángel
A1 Rodríguez Alonso, Xabier
A1 Martínez Pérez, Clara
A1 Tornero Aguilera, José Francisco
A1 Clemente Suárez, Vicente Javier
A1 Sánchez Ramos, Celia
A1 Álvarez Peregrina, Cristina
AB Background: To perform motor tasks, athletes must gather a considerable amount of visual information quickly. Evidence shows that visual skills vary between athletes and non-athletes, and impact athletic performance. However, there is no scientific evidence suggesting that there are any differences between the visual skills of federated and non-federated athletes. As such, the objective of this paper was to compare how visual skills influence the sports performance of federated and non-federated athletes, respectively. Methods: A visual examination has been conducted on a total of 52 athletes between 18 and 37 years of age. The COI-Sport Vision system screen (International Optometry Center, Madrid, Spain) was used to examine static visual acuity, dynamic visual acuity, contrast sensitivity, stereopsis, fixation disparity, visual memory, identification, anticipation time, peripheral awareness, and hand-eye coordination. Results: On average, federated athletes train more hours per day than non-federated athletes (1.4 ± 0.8) (p = 0.046). A significant correlation was observed between the average time of visual memory (β = −0.0683, p < 0.001), the average time of anticipation (β = 0.006, p = 0.009), the average time of peripheral awareness (β = 0.026, p = 0.002), hand-eye coordination (β = 0.028, p = 0.004), dynamic visual acuity (β = 0.055, p < 0.001), and the number of training hours. Conclusion: Results suggest that federated athletes are more concerned about their ocular health. Nonetheless, no differences were found in the oculomotor skills of both groups. Further investigation is required to consider each sport discipline individually.
PB MDPI
SN 1660-4601
YR 2023
FD 2023-01-06
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/72983
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/72983
LA eng
NO Received: 10 November 2022 / Revised: 30 December 2022 / Accepted: 2 January 2023 / Published: 6 January 2023(This article belongs to the Special Issue Team Sports: Health, Fitness & Performance)
DS Docta Complutense
RD 3 may 2024