Sportsvision: Dr. Revien’s Eye Exercise Program for Athletes
Revien and Gabor
1981
Submitter: This was found on the shelves in our public library system (mid-size, 10 branches.) It was no longer in the catalog, so came to me in the Technical Services department. I have no idea if the science behind this has been superseded or debunked, but at the very least, this is painfully out of date. The sports icons shown as examples in the pages include Terry Bradshaw, Bjorn Borg, Pete Rose and Nancy Lopez. And the illustrations and photographs are unselfconsciously 1970s hilarious.
Holly: This is owned by quite a lot of colleges and universities…including a College of Optometry library. I sincerely hope it isn’t part of the curriculum there!
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Dude with the TV looks posed unnaturally, I assume because they couldn’t get him, his arm, his hand, the TV, and the antenna in the photo otherwise.
What a tiny TV! Even for a portable back then.
Man on page 61 is a big Magritte fan.
Couldn’t you, just, I dunno… practice your actual sport more?
I had a tinier TV than that, by a lot. It served me well all through graduate school and into my first apartment as a married person.
Those pictures look really funny… I wonder how much they got paid to just stand there and do these experiments.
The lady on page 33 looks seriously teed off at having to do these exercises.
You’d have to pay me a lot more than she undoubtedly got to go around shining a flashlight in my eyes all day.
To give them credit, of the 4 people we’ve got pictures of, 2 are POC. That’s not bad.