Talk:Yips

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Yips is a movement disorder long known to interfere with putting, the "yips" affect between one-fourth and one-half of all mature golfers (Smith et al., 2000). Researchers at the Mayo Clinic found that 33 percent to 48 percent of all serious golfers have experienced the yips. Golfers who have played for more than 25 years appear to be most prone to the condition.

Although the exact cause of the yips has yet to be determined, one possibility is that, in some golfers, the condition may result from biochemical changes in the brain that accompany aging. Excessive use of the involved muscles and intense demands of coordination and concentration may make the problem worse. Focal dystonia is mentioned as another posibility for the real cause of yips.

And the yips phenomenon may not be limited to golfers. Similar neurological and anxiety-like conditions affect other athletes, musicians, health care workers — such as dentists — and more.

This may explain why a baseball player suddenly throws wildly on once-easy throws, a musician's fingers become stiff and unresponsive during a performance, or a writer has trouble writing longhand.

Also affects other sports, mainly cricket and tennis. Guillermo Coria, tennis player from argentina, who was number 3 in the world, appears to suffer yips in his service.

The term yips is said to have been popularized by Tommy Armour — a golf champion, later golf teacher — to explain the difficulties that led him to abandon tournament play. In describing the yips, golfers have used terms such as twitches, staggers, jitters and jerks.

In Popular Culture?
athletics got this syndrome commonly I dunno if this should even be in the article but... it was referenced in How I Met Your Mother.


 * tinlv7 [Please copy a response here] 06:09, 15 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Lisa Simpson also suffers from Yips in one episode. She can't play the Sax anymore but when they accidentally go to New Orleans, all ends well. Hodsha (talk) 18:49, 15 October 2022 (UTC)

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 * The yips are most commonly associated with putting, and renowned golf coach Hank Haney has written a book specific to the subject in his 2007 “Fix the Yips Forever”. He is best known as the former coach of world number one player Tiger Woods. Haney goes on to explain in his book that the yips are not restricted to putting but are also a common, although often undiagnosed, problem amongst advanced players resulting in chipping yips and full swing yips.

Hythlodayalmond (talk) 17:58, 11 February 2011 (UTC)

Why does The Yips not direct here?
The Yips directs to an episode list for 'How I met your Mother'.. Surely anyone searching is looking for this pseudo-syndrome, not an episode of a TV show which is named for the syndrome. --IronMaidenRocks (talk) 19:13, 16 July 2017 (UTC)
 * I've change the redirect to The yips which seems logical to me. Nigej (talk) 06:29, 17 July 2017 (UTC)

We may be conflating a bit of things on gymnastics here
I don't think saying that the Yips are called the twisties in gymnastics is accurate. The twisties seem to be a specific case of the yips when a gymnast forgets how to twist, but for example, a loss on technique how to block on vault or how to do a handstand on bars would also be an example of the yips, even if they're not the twisties.

Also, I don't think the cases of Elena Mukhina and Julissa Gomez are a good example of this. Julissa was attempting to perform a skill she was not ready for (it was not like she learned it and then got the yips) and Mukhina was training with an injury. I don't think any of this can actually be counted as a case of the yips. Any comments? Not A Superhero (talk) 18:17, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

Add Etymology
This article needs etymology to provide where the origin of this term came from and a citation as to when first used. 2601:642:4C02:161D:3CF3:75FC:D04E:12C6 (talk) 06:13, 31 March 2023 (UTC)

Wiki Education assignment: Research Methods in Clinical Psychology
— Assignment last updated by Samwk04 (talk) 14:44, 30 April 2024 (UTC)

Hi! I want to add a section on specific treatment options used to treat people with the yips and their effectiveness. For example, there have been studies that examine: motor imagery, pre-performance routines, medication, botulinum toxin, and alternative therapies like acupuncture and emotional freedom technique. I will make sure to mention that these have largely been based on personal experiences rather than well-founded research evidence. I also want to talk about neurophysiological aspects of the yips and the role of task-specific dystonia while also acknowledging the significant influence of underlying anxiety in its emergence. Let me know if you have any questions. Thanks! Samwk04 (talk) 15:20, 30 April 2024 (UTC)