Citation

Schneiders AG, John Sullivan S, Rathbone EJ, Louise Thayer A, Wallis LM, Wilson AE. Phys. Ther. Sport 2010; 11(2): 47-49.

Affiliation

Centre for Physiotherapy Research, University of Otago, 325 Great King Street Dunedin 9016, New Zealand. (tony.schneiders@otago.ac.nz).

Copyright

(Copyright © 2010, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.ptsp.2010.01.001

PMID

20381000

Abstract

OBJECTIVES: To determine whether elite motorsport athletes demonstrate superior levels of Visual Acuity than age and sex-matched controls. DESIGN: A cross-sectional observational study. SETTING: A University vision and balance laboratory. PARTICIPANTS: Young male motorsport athletes from the New Zealand Elite Motorsport Academy and healthy age and sex-matched controls. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Vision performance tests comprising; Static Visual Acuity (SVA), Dynamic Visual Acuity (DVA), Gaze Stabilization Test (GST), and the Perception Time Test (PTT). RESULTS: Motorsport athletes demonstrated superior visual acuity compared to age and sex-matched controls for all measures, and while this was not statistically significant for SVA, GST and DVA, it reached statistical significance for the PTT (p

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