presented by

Donald S. Teig,  O. D.*

·        Training Visual Performance Of The Athlete:  A Structured Program And Useful Drills

·        The Weakest Link: An Optometric Experience

·        Sports Vision: Everything You Wanted To Know But Were Afraid To Ask

·       Fitting Specialty Contact Lenses In The Primary Care Office 

·        Sports Related Eye Injuries And Protective Eyewear

·        The Mind's Eye: Relaxation, Concentration, Visualization

·        How To Market Sports Vision For Today's Practice

Objective:

In today's highly competitive world of private practice with it's pressures that run the gamut from managed care to an ever shrinking profit margin, carving out a specialty niche in the area of Sports Medicine may be just what the doctor ordered!!

The athlete and recreation oriented patient provides a unique challenge to optometrists. Their demand for excellence in eye health, eye protection, and visual-motor performance enhancement, challenges the eye care practitioner to maximize the performance results for these patients.  This series of lectures will prepare you to help your athlete patients, and thus carve out a practice niche for additional business, so that you and your patients will be able to "Go For The Gold!"

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• Dr. Donald S. Teig (click here for Full CV) is the Director of the Institute for Sports Vision in Ridgefield, Connecticut as well as the founder of Ridgefield Family Eye Care.  Thirty years ago, he pioneered work in Sports Vision and Visual-Motor Performance Training with Major League Baseball.  Subsequently, Dr. Teig and his associates would have the opportunity to work with ten major league baseball clubs, the men and women’s pro golf and tennis tours, several NBA basketball clubs, many Olympic teams, teams in professional football and hockey, as well as the dancers in the Joffrey Ballet.  His patient files are a virtual Who’s Who in the sports, entertainment, business and political arenas.

   

  Dr. Teig has been the author of numerous articles on the relationship of vision to improved athletic performance.  He has lectured throughout the world on this topic and has originated much of the equipment and techniques being used in the field today.

   

  Dr. Teig has appeared on several network television and radio programs discussing vision and sports, including featured segments of the Today Show, Dateline NBC, ESPN Sports Center, the View and Fox Good Day New York. 

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•  Dr. Teig was recently the national Spokesperson for the CooperVision Teen Contact program.  He served as Senior Sports Vision consultant to the Vistakon Vision Care Institute “Sweet Sixteen” Performance Team for the Beijing Olympics in 2008. He continues to be the vision consultant to the New York Yankees baseball club.  He was unanimously selected as the Benedict Distinguished Visiting Professor in Practice Management at the University of Houston for the years 2006-2007.

   

  He was the past president of the International Academy of Sports Vision which was affiliated with the American College of Sports Medicine.  He is the past chairman of the Sports Vision Section of the American Optometric Association where he received Sports Vision Specialist of the Year honors.

   

  Dr. Teig has been the author of numerous articles on the relationship of vision to improved athletic performance.  He has lectured throughout the world on this topic and has originated much of the equipment and techniques being used in the field today.

   

Dr. Travel, LLC is an approved COPE provider.

This course is COPE approved for 12 CE Credits.