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Twisties and Yips: Simone Biles Reveals a Powerful Mind-Body Connection

By Anna Funk — 2021

“We are not really good at fully understanding the relationship between the brain and the mind, or the brain and performance."

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Like Simone Biles and Naomi Osaka, I’ve Stepped Away from Competition Because of Performance Anxiety.

Out in the chalk circle, my vision became tunneled, my stomach tied in knots, and I felt like I couldn’t hear anything but my own racing thoughts.

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Amelia Jarecke
2021
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Focal Dystonia: A Musician Overcomes a Movement Disorder With a Change of Mind

After graduating with his doctorate in sports medicine, Farias developed a neuroplasticity training program to help other dystonia patients recover, using his toolbox of strategies to teach them how to retrain their brains.

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Iris Kulbatski
2020
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Yes, You Can Beat the Yips. Here’s How, According to a Star Putting Coach

The yips are a nasty ailment. They—along with the shanks—can appear out of nowhere and absolutely derail a golfer’s otherwise solid game. And worst of all, no one is safe from their wrath.

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Zephyr Melton
2021
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The Yips, Potential CTE-Depression Link and More

— New sports psychology articles raise research questions.

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Ryan Basen
2017
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Task-specific Focal Dystonia

Task-specific focal dystonia is a movement disorder that interferes with the performance of particular tasks, such as writing, playing a musical instrument, or participating in a sport - a condition known informally as "the yips."

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‘It Took 10 Years to Recover’: The Story of Scott Boswell and the Yips

What if you had the chance to realise a dream you had harboured since childhood and it went horribly wrong?

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Andy Bull
2013
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Why Simone Biles Getting ‘the Twisties’ Was So Terrifying and What Recovery Could Look Like

This is clearly not a matter of an athlete struggling with technical aspects of a skill or not being physically prepared. There’s something else at work here.

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Dvora Meyers
2021
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Is Fixing the Yips as Easy as Admitting You Have Them? A Yale Professor Makes the Case

It’s a theory of cognitive science called “ironic process theory,” which argues the more we try to suppress certain thoughts, the more likely we are to make them surface.

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James Colgan
2019
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17 Golfers Reveal How They Survived the Putting Yips

The putting yips. Outside of a stone cold shank, there’s arguably no more terrifying thought in all of golf

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Luke Kerr-Dineen
2020
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Yips Focal Dystonia May Affect More Athletes Than Previously Recognized

Yips, a focal task–specific dystonia, may be more prevalent than previously thought, according to a new study of golfers.

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Daniel M. Keller
2019
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