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José Tomás


He has a degree in Optics and Optometry from the University of Alicante and a Master's in Clinical Optometry from the Boston Center for Optometry.


He has practiced optometry in various fields. From establishing an optical store to working in an optometry and visual therapy clinic, as well as in the optometry unit of an ophthalmology clinic. He currently practices at Confort Visión in Madrid.


In the last 12 years, he has focused a large part of his activity in the area of Sports Optometry and Visual Training. To this end, he founded his own company, SVTA Spain, which later became SVVT Spain.


He has sought to establish bridges between optometry and the world of high-performance sports training by collaborating with various professionals in the sports field as well as with different clubs and sports schools; the Juan Carlos Ferrero Tennis Academy, Ipswich Town FC, and the Ecosystem Sports group are some examples.


He regularly evaluates and visually trains professional athletes from various fields such as Tennis, Table Tennis, Taekwondo, Judo, Equestrian, Telemark Skiing, Soccer, Basketball, Handball, and primarily Golf. Another important area of his activity is the training of professionals in optometry and sports. This training is organized and delivered either individually or through official programs such as the Master's in Visual Therapy from Valencia, the Master's in Physical Activity, Health, and Pathologies from the CEU San Pablo Andalucía Foundation, or the Sports Technician studies from the Royal Spanish Golf Federation.


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Sports Visual Training... Only for Athletes?


Sports vision is an area within optometry that is gaining more interest among vision professionals, although it remains somewhat unknown in the sports world, even among our own fellow optometrists.


Being a very attractive area, we often find that we do not reach the target audience or the right patient to propose this type of training. On the other hand, we tend to be unaware that we can apply these techniques effectively and with little investment to visual therapy patients, including those for whom we provide visual rehabilitation in cases of neurological damage.


In this conference, we will learn about the foundations on which sports visual training is based; from visual information to motor response.


We will talk about how to conduct a visual examination and an appropriate case approach to work with these techniques. We will learn about many of the elements and materials used in sports visual training. We will look at the "standardized" materials created for this purpose and those that we can obtain from everyday items.


We will explore the new tools that technology makes available to us to incorporate into our visual training programs.


And, both in the case of technological tools and in the more "manual" tools and some of a more "homemade" nature, we will see how they apply to this training methodology.


We will practice with practical examples of "in situ" using different tools, applying them to vision therapy programs in the optometric consultation.


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