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Why Do Top Athletes Suddenly Develop “the Yips”—a Tendency to Choke under Pressure?
By Jürgen Beckmann — 2013
One suggested explanation is a neurological condition called focal dystonia that results in involuntary muscle contractions when performing a motor task and tends to affect a muscle group that is used frequently and repeatedly.
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