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Examples of Recommended Eye Protection for Recreational Sports
Sport | Eye Protection |
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Baseball | Polycarbonate face guard or other certified safe protection attached to the helmet for batting and base running; sports goggles with polycarbonate lensesa for fielding |
Basketball | Sports goggles with polycarbonate lensesa |
Bicycling (LER)b | Sturdy street-wear frames with polycarbonate or CR-39 lenses |
Boxing | None is available |
Fencing | Full-face cage |
Field hockey (both sexes) | Goalie: full-face mask; all others: sports goggles with polycarbonate lensesa |
Football | Polycarbonate shield on helmet |
Full-contact martial arts | Not allowed |
Handball | Sports goggles with polycarbonate lensesa |
Ice hockey | Helmet and full-face protection |
Lacrosse (female) | Should at least wear sports goggles with polycarbonate lenses and have option to wear helmet and full-face protection |
Lacrosse (male) | Helmet and full-face protection required |
Racquetball | Sports goggles with polycarbonate lensesa |
Soccer | Sports goggles with polycarbonate lensesa |
Softball | Polycarbonate face guard on a helmet for batting and base running; sports goggles with polycarbonate lensesa for fielding |
Squash | Sports goggles with polycarbonate lensesa (U.S. Squash, 2016) |
Street hockey | Sports goggles with polycarbonate lensesa; goalie: full face cagec |
Swimming and pool sports | Swim goggles recommended |
Tennis: singles | Sturdy street-wear frames with polycarbonate lenses |
Track and field (LER)a | Sturdy street-wear frames with polycarbonate or CR-39 lenses |
Sport | Eye Protection |
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Water polo | Swim goggles with polycarbonate lensesa |
Wrestling | None is available |
NOTE: a Goggles without lenses are not effective.
b For sports in which face masks or helmets with eye protection are worn, functionally one-eyed athletes and those with previous eye trauma or surgery for whom their ophthalmologists recommend eye protection must also wear sports goggles with polycarbonate lenses to ensure protection.
c A street hockey ball can penetrate into a molded goalie mask and injure an eye.
LER = low eye risk.
SOURCES: Reproduced with permission from AAP, 2004.
REFERENCES
AAP (American Academy of Pediatrics). 2004. The National Eye Institute. Finding the right eye protection. Pediatrics 113(3):619–622. https://nei.nih.gov/sports/findingprotection (accessed September 23, 2015).
U.S. Squash. 2016. Protective eyewear. https://www.ussquash.com/officiate/protective-eyewear (accessed May 18, 2016).