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The eyes are the windows of the vestibular system. A clear vision allows us to have the correct answer to what is happening around us. At this point, as specialized sports physiotherapists, we asked ourselves: can we improve performance and reduce injuries in athletes by training the oculomotor system? The sport therapy is important.

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An experienced sports physiotherapist studies the performances of athletes - it must be said - from various points of view and speaking of visual attention we can say that groped to observe the fast movements that occur in sport requires great efforts for human sight. The eyes send information to the brain where it is integrated and interpreted as a 3D phenomenon.

·        Visual attention occurs when we focus with both eyes on an object.

·        This pause is called "fixation". In a simple way we see how the vestibular path through the Central Nervous System of vision takes place:

·        Light enters through different natural lenses: the cornea, the crystalline and the vitreous body;

·        The image affects the retina which stimulates the sensory receptors;

·        The sensory receptors transform the stimulus energy into nerve impulses through the optic nerve to the brain.

In fact, the gaze (fixation) is therefore the ability to bring the critical information required to act well within that part of the eye (called "fovea"), and sports performance (the technical gesture) is undoubtedly influenced by the ability to see with sharp acuity.

The Visual System

Roger Federer's visual system is trained to look at the ball from behind the racket. This way he is able to keep his head and eyes still for longer before contact and this makes him more stable by not shaking his head forward during the swing.

This concept is described under the name of Quiet Eye which is the final fixation or pursuit fixation that is located in a specific place or object in the visual workspace within 3 ° of visual angle.