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Athletes expend substantial resources and spend hundreds of hours developing the physical skills needed to perform at their maximum level. The fact is, in every sport, the visual system is the initial point for processing information that allows those highly developed skills to respond accurately. Surprisingly, this factor is one of the most neglected aspects of the athlete’s training. In Vision Basics: Seeing Your Way to a Better Game, the importance of making sure athletes have proper visual skills to compliment their physical skills is addressed. Among the topics covered in the DVD: Comprehensive eye examinations—learning why routine eye care is so important for every athlete, ocular emergencies—knowing how to prevent and, if necessary, to handle the most common ocular emergencies, vision training—learning how vision training can help an athlete when a visual skill deficiency has been identified, refractive surgery understanding the basics and knowing when refractive surgery should be considered as an option.