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While most vision problems are natural or genetic, some are the result of injury and accident.Eye injuries are the leading cause of blindness in school-age, and most of those injuries are sports related.According to the National Eye Institute, there are more than 100,000 sports related eye injuries every year with 42,000 requiring emergency room care.In fact, U.S. emergency rooms treat a patient with an eye injury every 13 minutes.Up to 90 percent of these injuries could be prevented if parents made their kids do one simple thing - wear eye protection.However, only 15 percent of children wear eye protection.To see more details visit, www.salineriverchronicle.blogspot.in

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