Prismatic lenses used in Milan visual training

Paired and unpaired prismatic lenses worn by players during visual training exercises enhance their visual ability, optimise foot and eye co-ordination and increase initial outburst speed' reported Massimo Trevisol, Optometrist/Optician in charge of the Milan Lab Optometry Science Laboratory during his presentation at the 30th Optometrists' Association Convention.

During training, Milan players are examined in their wholeness of being. Special attention is given to building muscles, reinforcing respiratory capacity, and maintaining psychic welfare and good internal organ functions.

Vision is also obviously the object of particular care: players on the field are required to focus their attention on a specific point without losing their peripheral vision of everything that is going on around the ball that is recorded by the eye but not really consciously seen. This skill is developed as much as possible by training the eye to follow objects in motion that change speed and direction constantly without obviously "forgetting" what is going on in the peripheral area of vision.

The exercise carried out to develop this skill consists in focusing on tiny objects very close in the foreground and then focusing in a wider field of vision. This helps bridge a gap that exists in numerous athletes.

Most football players can be divided into those who focus all their attention on the ball ignoring the rest of the field and those whose field of vision is too wide and therefore lose sight of the ball.

To restore the right balance, prismatic lenses are used in Milan Lab visual training exercises to hinder the player's view of everything that is happening on the field: this difficulty encourages him to use all the connections between his neurones and all those that translate nerve pulses into movement. This quickens motor response time, initial outburst speed, and kicks made following a visual stimulus that is read in the entirety of its message.