SPECIALTY GLASSES and SUNGLASSES

These are a few of the types of glasses available for specific uses:

Sports Protective Eyewear: For Kids and Adults: Protects your eyes from high impact of all types.  Improves reaction time and overall awareness of objects.

Safety Glasses:  Protect your eyes from dangerous high velocity impact.

Motorcycling: Protects from wind, debris, improves clarity and contrast

Golf Sunglasses:  To improve contrast, reduce glare and protect from powerful UVA and UVB rays

Water sports:  Boating, Fishing, SCUBA diving, swimming: Improve clarity, contrast, Protect from harmful UVA and UVB rays.

Biking: Shield your eyes from dirt, bugs, flying objects, improve contrast;  Protect from harmful UVA and UVB

Ballistic Eyewear:  To protect from high velocity impact, improve contrast

Computer Glasses:  Help clarity, contrast, reduce fatigue, eye, neck and back soreness, eliminate headaches

*** Remember, specialty glasses usually require a special exam to insure they fit properly and work correctly.

Some of the brands we carry:

• REC SPECS
• WILEY X
• KAENON

SPECIAL NOTE:

At Personal Eyes, we take eye protection seriously.  At least 90% of sports eye injuries can be prevented by wearing eye protection. In addition, many young athletes have found that the extra protection actually enhances their concentration and alleviates their fear of injuries so they play better.  To that end, we have chosen to become a "Sports Injury Prevention Center" through Liberty Sport, the manufacturer of Rec-Specs.

Statistics

Every year, hospital emergency departments throughout the country treat over 45,000 sports-related and recreational eye injuries. More than half are suffered by children.

Eye injuries are often the result of a high-speed ball, aggressive body contact or a moving piece of sports equipment. Young players often lack the reflexes, coordination, strength or experience to avoid these eye hazards.

When properly fitted, appropriate eye protection such as batting helmets with face maskes and eye goggles, can reduce the risk of eye injuries by at least 90%