Aug
10
With eye-related injuries on the rise, many are turning to the root causes of the increase in retina damage caused by high-impact sports like paintball, boxing, biking, shooting and martial arts.
It is important to prepare for full contact to the eye in any of the above-mentioned sports, even when incidents are unlikely. Off-road Biking, for example, causes several dozen eye injuries a month when bikers pedaling through the forest get a twig or branch snapped into their eye. Retina damage can be irreparable if severe enough, and can severely decrease your efficiency. Boxing and martial arts are high-impact sports where a knuckle or finger in the eye can cause rupturing, severe bruising or even blindness. Shooting without eye protection has led to damage and blindness when shrapnel is propelled or the recoil on the rifle hits the eye socket, causing rupture or retina damage.
Paintball is one of the most damaging sports to the eye, as several participants a year are blinded by a direct shot to the eye. The paint can propel at high speeds, causing the eye to rupture and be infected with paint, which can even shoot behind the eye if the shot was close range. Full, sealed eyewear is not only recommended, it should be required. A recent study showed that 80% of all sports-related eye injuries occur in men, with ruptured eyeballs the most common occurrence with detached retinas the second most common eye injury related to paintball. Nearly 90% of all injured require surgery with permanent damage, and even blindness. Proper protection could have caused almost all of reported eye injury cases to have been avoided, doctors say.
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