Dispensing in sport Flashcards
What does sports eye wear aim to do ?
- improve vision by -enhancing contrast and reducing glare
- provide protection via impact resistance and UV protection.
What are the main hazard for racket sports glasses?
-Squash ball travels at high velocity- 140mph but up to 176mph
-Squash ball is approx. 40mm diameter
-Injuries due to racquet sports represent 47.5% of ocular trauma
that required hospital admission
- therefore need to make sure frames and lenses need to provide protection
What protects the orbital socket from damage ?
- bone structure- facial bones in nose, cheek and forehead- if hit by a football suppose.
- however a squash ball is small enough to fit within the socket
What injuries do racquet sports cause?
- involve blunt trauma
- Blunt trauma
- Blow out fracture
- Ruptured globe- push eyeball intro circuit
- Hyphema
- Retinal haemorrage
- Retinal detatchment -Commotio retinae
What are the 2 British standard for racquet sports ?
- Must conform to EN167 and EN166 (Personal eye protection). Squash- BS7930:1
What are the rules for racquet sports?
- Now mandatory for all doubles squash players and juniors to wear protective eyewear.
- Cant be worn over specs.
How racquet sports glasses can be made?
- Can be glazed with Rx
- Glazed ‘loose’ to allow impact to be absorbed by glasses
What to consider when giving racquet sports glasses?
wide field of view
What do the racquet sport frames designed as ?
being padded to help absorb any shock and help prevent bruising.
-Thick silicone molded cushion pads to protect the nose on
impact.
-Elasticated headbands instead of standard sides.
-Can be ventilated to prevent streaming up
-Should be adjustable for good fit
-Commonly nylon
What are the lenses of racquet sports glasses made of ?
- Polycarbonate for impact resistance
- Coated for anti-fog
- Can be high base curve if curved- can change base curve of lens so they can fit in a certain frame
What are some things to consider for snooker glasses?
- Head position
- Effect on vision
What should the frames of snooker glasses be like ?
-Must have joint angles to allow for retroscopic and Pantoscopic
tilt
-Dispensers rule for retroscopic tilt Raise the heights by half of
the retroscopic angle.
What should the lenses of snooker glasses be like ?
-Require 50mm depth- great depth- so need be of large blanc size
-MAR
-The visual axes must still be approximately
the lens.
What needs to be considered for shooting glasses ?
- Eye dominance- whether they prefer one eye - occluded or not- ask what type of shooting they err doing.
- Contrast
- Lenses
- Tints- colour? how dark?
- Lenses can be tilted and centered according to the shooters position.
- The non shooting eye can be occluded.
What tints are good for shooting glasses ?
bronze tint- often used in clay pigeon shooting
- yellow tint- good in shooting on black and white target- good contrast
- red and pink tint- good for black and green targets- reduce effects of green background