Connecticut's News-Times (8/19, Miller) reported that "sports-related blow[s] to the eye" are becoming "regrettably common." Without protection, "eyes are vulnerable to flying objects, whether they be a hockey puck, an air ball pellet, or a line-drive hit back to the pitcher." James Salz, M.D., of the University of Southern California, pointed out that the eye's interior "is filled with a gel-like fluid called vitreous humor that helps the eyeball maintain its shape. But, when a very fast-moving object hits the eye, the force drives the eye into the back of the socket," and "the collision can pull the retina off the rear wall of the eye." Retinal specialist Nazanin Barzideh, M.D., urges people who have "a sudden flurry of floaters, or" notice "a dark permanent shadow in the corner of [their] vision," to see an eye specialist "quickly, so that a doctor can surgically reattach the retina. Otherwise, blindness in the eye might follow." Although "any kind of eyewear will offer the eye some protection," Dr. Salz said that "specially-designed, protective glasses are best."
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