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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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Don’t Cramp My Style

He had succumbed to what doctors call focal dystonia, golfers call the yips, and instrumentalists and scribblers, respectively, call musician’s cramp and writer’s cramp.

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Why Is It Called the Yips?

The yips can affect those who play sports such as golf, baseball, cricket, bowling, archery, darts or other things.

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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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What “Ted Lasso” Could Help Us to Understand about Athletes Protecting their Mental Health

A well-handled storyline about “the yips” explains and supports Simone Biles’ decision to avoid potential injury.

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Why Do Top Athletes Suddenly Develop “the Yips”—a Tendency to Choke under Pressure?

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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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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What’s Happening Inside Simone Biles’ Brain When the ‘Twisties’ Set In?

A complex system in the brain that keeps gymnasts balanced can get out of whack.

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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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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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