In this session, participants will examine the challenges of enhancing patients’ vision while they play sports and begin to explore how a sports vision optician must think differently from an everyday dispensing optician.
The optical marketplace has been transformed with new trends.Sunwear–o-logy is the new category for optical success. The sunwear business is now larger than the contact lens segment and is the fastest growing part of the optical and general retail business.
A new orthopedics and sports medicine clinic in a rural state was opened in early 2020, in an area with no previous academic sports medicine clinic. This retrospective study examines the correlation between referred adolescent sports injury patients' home residence from the clinic and the time it takes for them to present to an orthopedic/sports medicine physician, while also examining the demographics of the patients seen at this clinic.
In this interactive workshop, Jamie will dissect real-world website examples (pre-selected or audience-submitted) and provide a no-holds-barred critique from the consumer's point of view.
Join us for this structured participatory discussion about what sports vision opticianry could/should be and what factors should be considered in trying to define and shape this segment of the vision care industry. Cira will lead this discussion so we can leave with a clear call to action.
