Q: Visual Fitness by Vision Care is your newest venture. Can you elaborate on that?

A: We ventured on this adventure in 2019. Unfortunately, because of the pandemic, we were unable to accomplish much. Now, we have begun raising awareness and conducting promotions on visual fitness.

Clear eyesight is essential for human success in all areas of life. To be visually adept, one must be able to make effective use of the visual data at one’s disposal. Vision is widely acknowledged as an important data point for the preparation and performance of motor skills.

By improving one’s visual acuity, visual fitness training is a subset of specialised training that can be used by people in fields other than sports to gain a competitive edge.

Athletes, dancers, pilots, military personnel, drivers and students aren’t the only ones who need to hone skills such as hand-eye coordination, response time and decision making under pressure. Everyone needs to be able to do it. Specialised training is available from Visual Fitness, which provides metrics for evaluating and improving such abilities.

Only at Visual Fitness by Vision Care in Sri Lanka can you benefit from the same state-of-the-art equipment that’s used by Olympic and professional athletes around the world to improve their visual performance.

Q: What are the advantages of visual fitness?

A: Improved performance in sports and other competitive settings can be achieved by strengthening the active visual skills needed for success in visual fitness. A person can gain an advantage over others by training their visual abilities.

Training in visual fitness can improve your eyesight and be used as a predictor of success in a number of different profes-sions. For this, we employ brand-new, cutting-edge technology called Senaptec Sensory Technology.

Professional athletes in the US have seen great success with this technology. The majority of the sports in which these players compete at the highest levels are ice hockey, American football, baseball, basketball etc.

Q: Can you elaborate on the techno-logy behind visual fitness?

A: The Senaptec Sensory Station is the most comprehensive automated solution for the important sensory skills. It helps measure 10 sensory characteristics and analyse the data in a very short time period of 30 minutes.

Using liquid crystal technology, Senaptec Strobe Glasses are made to strengthen neural pathways between the eyes, brain and the rest of the body. The lenses alternate between being transparent and opaque, and limit the wearer’s field of view. This requires the wearer to use his/her cognitive resources more effectively.

Visual Fitness by Vision Care also offers a Home Training App that allows the athlete to use a tablet or iPad to train visual skills at home, and measure the results against other athletes around the world.

Binovi Touch is yet another technology that can be used to improve visual abilities such as memory, reaction time and hand-eye coordination.

Fit Light is a unique tool that improves quickness and dexterity by fortifying the link between the mind and the body.

Kumari Fonseka
Director

Q: What are the processes of obtaining visual fitness?

A: The Visual Fitness assessment contains three elements: eye examination and visual fitness assessment; analysis of the results and the development of a customised training plan.

The procedure involves an examination that will disclose your eye’s health as well as how your eyes work together. Up to 80 percent of all information received by your brain is transmitted through your eyes.

Visual Fitness first assesses the athlete’s state in several visual capabilities that are required for athletic discipline. Visual cla-rity, contrast sensitivity, depth perception, near/far rapidity, perception span, multiple object tracking, reaction time, target capture, hand-eye coordination and other visual processing abilities may be included.

A visual skills evaluation will identify your vision’s strengths and areas for improvement. Following the analysis of the results, a tailored training plan will be devised and implemented.

Q: What are the packages available at Visual Fitness?

A: Specialised eye training packages introduced by the Visual Fitness unit include the Memory+ package, which helps improve learning among school children by intensifying their communication skills.

The Perfect Driver package is for drivers and learner drivers. There’s an Eagle Eye package for pilots who need to take instant but accurate decisions in emergency situations at high altitudes.

An Extended Vision package helps reduce visual impairment after the age of 40. And the Perfect Rehab package assists in rehabili-tating athletes who face declining vision due to injuries and rejuvenates patients with stroke-related complications.

Dancers Motivator package sharpens the special communication skills, which dancers need to direct their movements and maintain balance.

The Tri-forces Training package is for officers of the armed services who require skills such as strategic instant reaction speed, communication skills that include making critical decisions and information processing in complex life-threatening situations.

There’s also the Visual Stress Release package that can be used to reduce strain and stress to the eye.

– Compiled by Fazmina Imamudeen