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Article: Athletes focus on CD-ROM to give them an advantage Ophthalmologist says program can improve vision
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- August 20, 2002
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Coaches always have advised players: Keep your eye on the ball.
Now a Vernon Hills company, which has worked with elite athletes
for more than a decade, is offering tools on a CD-ROM aimed at
helping athletes do just that.
"We teach 'weightlifting' for the eyes," said Dr. Barry L.
Seiller, an ophthalmologist and director of the Visual Fitness
Institute.
Seiller and partner Kathy Puchalski, a visual performance
specialist and registered nurse, developed techniques used by
professional and amateur athletes, such as Olympian Jim Shea, the
gold medal winner in the skeleton event at the Winter Olympics at
Salt Lake City this year.
Now they are trying to spread their techniques to a larger market ...