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If you use glasses or contacts, sports can seem like a distant memory.

It is highly suggested that you use eye protection in addition to glasses or contacts when participating in team sports such as basketball. Individual sports such as running and tennis may not necessarily require protective eyewear, but throughout a marathon or a long tennis match, your glasses or contacts may begin to feel like lead weights, or your contacts may itch and burn.

Do you want a better option? Consider a different combination: LASIK and sports.

Focus on what Counts

If you’re new to a sport, glasses or contacts may appear unimportant. However, many sportsmen grow frustrated at the need to continually carry protective lenses or make sure they don’t lose contact just before a big game. If you lose contact or damage your protective eyewear, your field performance will be affected. You won’t realize your full potential, regardless of your talent. Contacts or glasses are holding you back.

Not to mention the cost of purchasing new prescription sunglasses and protective eyewear. Basketball, badminton, baseball, kayaking, and mountain riding may require two or three pairs of glasses. Corrective glasses for the house, gym, sun, and water might be expensive.

Improved Performance

LASIK patients can attain 20/10 eyesight, which benefits athletes. Clear vision aids basketball, diving, football, and table tennis players. Not all gifted athletes have “normal” sight. LASIK and sports are now linked. Laser vision correction from Shinagawa helps many athletes.

PBA players June Mar Fajardo, and Alex Cabagnot, and volleyball players Mika Reyes and Denise Lazaro have had successful procedures.

LASIK reshapes your eye’s outer layer to direct light onto your cornea. This will help you see 20/20—sometimes even 20/10. Shinagawa surgeons can improve your vision in 10 minutes using the latest excimer laser technology. You’ll see a big change the next day. You can play, skate, or run again in a few weeks. LASIK or not, contact sports require eye protection.

Don’t let glasses or contacts hold you back. LASIK and sports are a winning combination that can help you maximize performance.

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The struggles have to end at some point for Tiffannie Cabudsan, 23.

She tells her heartfelt story.

Ever since I was a kid, I was struggling with poor vision. Every new semester in school, my mom had to request for the teacher to place me in the front seat so that I won’t have a hard time seeing the writings on the board. At the age of 12, I had my eyeglasses with an eye grade of 200/250, as far as I remember, and it kept on progressing until my eye grade was already at 500 by the time.

With three daughters studying in a private school, my parents had a tight budget, so I couldn’t change my glasses monthly to correct my eye grade.

My eye grade peaked at 800 on the right eye and 750 on the left with astigmatism.

Fortunately, I came across Shinagawa and I was able to get my eyes treated via LASIK in time before I go legally blind. Now, my vision is 20/20 and the world is in HD!

However, my LASIK journey was not smooth sailing at all. At first, my mom was fully against the idea. My mom had a misconception about LASIK that it’s dangerous, it will make you go blind, and it’s painful.

One day I casually mentioned to her that I’ll get a LASIK someday and she said that there were still other options to cure my poor vision which was the herbal remedy. Knowing her reaction about LASIK, a few days before my surgery, I talked to my sister to help me convince my mom to come along on the day of my surgery.

When I finally told her about it, she was shocked and at a loss for words, and even without her saying anything I know that she was fully opposed to it with a few statements mentioned by my sister “It’s for the best and the result is for a lifetime” and “to grab the opportunity as they don’t often come along” my mom accompanied me on the day of my surgery. Her initial reaction after the surgery was she was relieved and thankful for a successful surgery.

As for me, it feels surreal and I feel like a different person after LASIK!

-Tiff, 23 years old

Share your LASIK story with us, too!
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