Eye trauma during sports

Sports medicine and sports-related trauma.

1Sports Medicine Physician and Orthopedist, Editor-In-Chief of the Journal of the Brazilian Society of Sports and Exercise Medicine, Brazilian Society of Sports and Exercise Medicine (SBMEE). Coordinator of the Sports and Exercise Medical Center at Hospital 9 de Julho, São Paulo, SP, Brazil. Tenured Full Professor and Orthopedic Residency Preceptor at Hospital Ipiranga, São Paulo State Health D...

Eye Injuries and Eye Protection in Sports.

The International Federation of Sports Medicine (FIMS) calls attention to the fact that, while injuries in sports can be relatively frequent, they are almost completely preventable. Loss of sight, even in one eye, involves changes in lifestyle for the individual and serious financial and social consequences both for the individual and for society as a whole. It is imperative that sport eye inju...

Eye Trauma

limitations, risks and complications, and instructions for monitoring devices. Part 5 consists of a chapter on the care of the technologically dependent child. One disadvantage of this partitioning is that aspects of a particular system are not always covered in the expected section; e.g., cerebral death is covered in Part 1 and therefore is not located in the "neurologic" section of Part 3. Th...

Sussex Eye Hospital sports injuries.

To assess the prevalence of sports eye injuries in our area a register was kept over the 18 months from October 1982 to March 1984. Squash, association football, badminton, and tennis were the main offenders. The severest injury was from a golf ball, involving a fractured zygoma. There was one retinal dialysis, and one lens dislocation requiring extraction. Spectacles were broken in six cases a...

Primary level management of eye injury/trauma