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With an estimated 40,000 sports-related eye injuries each year, it’s no wonder more and more athletes are becoming interested in sports eyewear. Sports eyewear can now be seen on professional athletes, children, and everyone in between, and for good reason: injuries in sports extend beyond broken bones. An errant ball, careless elbow, or extended finger can cause serious damage to your eyes. The safety benefits of sports eyewear have been enjoyed for years in games like racquet ball......
Every year, it’s estimated that nearly 50,000 Americans suffer eye injuries while participating in sports and recreational activities. While many of these eye injuries have the potential to cause temporary or permanent vision loss, 90% of them are preventable by using the appropriate protective eyewear, according to The Coalition To Prevent Sports Eye Injuries.   Blunt trauma, corneal abrasions and penetrating injuries are the most common sports related eye injuries. Contact sports......
When comes to sports sunglasses, mountain bikers have two choice when they wear glasses for vision correction, either wear contact lenses with an ordinary pair of sunglasses or wear a pair of prescription sports sunglasses.   With regards to the sports prescription sunglasses, there are two main types. The one is an insert known as clip-in lens which simply clips to the inside of the frame at the nose-piece, the other one is an in-frame prescription lens, where either the entire lens has ......
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