How to detect the yips in golf

Human Movement Science

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1270-1287

  Klämpfl, Martin K ^a   Lobinger, Babett H ^a   Raab, Markus ^a,b  

^a GERMAN SPORT UNIVERSITY COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b LONDON SOUTH BANK UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Choking under pressure; Electromyography; Focal dystonia; Kinematics; Putting

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARM MUSCLE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GLOVE; GOLF; HAND TREMOR; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INVOLUNTARY MOVEMENT; KINEMATICS; MALE; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PERFORMANCE ANXIETY; PSYCHOMETRY; STRESS; YIP;

2223; 2225; 2320; 2330; 3100; 3200; 3700; CHOKING UNDER PRESSURE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FOCAL DYSTONIA; KINEMATICS; PUTTING;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; ANXIETY; AROUSAL; ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE; BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; DEFENSE MECHANISMS; DYSKINESIAS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GOLF; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REFERENCE VALUES; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84888841617     PISSN: 01679457     EISSN: 18727646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.humov.2013.04.004     Document Type: Article

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