Sports-related eye (SRE) injuries are common especially when the sportsmen are not using protective devices. It was very common in past when the protective stuff was not used while playing any sort of sports. SRE trauma can be by: Cricket ball Hockey ball or stick tennis ball, Ping pong ball Baseball Football American football Golf basketball Volleyball Cycling Rafting Kabaddi The incidence of SRE injuries is far less as was in past a lot of protective devices are used these days. Say while playing cricket batsmen besides using helmets, gloves, leg guards’ abdominal guards, chest guard, shin guard, and arm guards are used.
Even with helmets, there was the death of one Australian batsman when he was struck by a fastball on his helmet grill. He sustained brain stem injury and died. The key is to see the efficacy of helmets and its grills in past batsmen were not using helmets have lost…
