Golfers' cramp: clinical characteristics and evidence against it being an anxiety disorder. Export

@article{Sac92, abstract = {The clinical characteristics of 20 golfers suffering from golfers' cramp or the "yips" are described. The typical description is that of a middle-aged golfer who has played competitive golf since his teens and develops the problem during a tournament in the form of a jerk, spasm, or freezing of movement while putting or chipping, with the rest of the game being relatively unaffected. The problem generally takes a chronic fluctuating course, and a number of 'trick' strategies are partially or fully successful. In this study, the subjects were compared with a matched group of 20 unaffected golfers on a number of indices of psychopathology; no significant differences emerged. The more severely affected golfers also did not differ significantly from the mildly affected ones, except on the subjective report of anxiety. These data support the argument that golfers' cramp is not an anxiety disorder or a neurosis. The important role of anxiety and arousal in its manifestation is, nevertheless, recognized and its pathophysiology speculated upon.}, address = {Neuropsychiatric Institute, Prince Henry Hospital, Little Bay, Sydney, Australia.}, author = {Sachdev, P.}, citeulike-article-id = {1650662}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/mds.870070405}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1484526}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=1484526}, doi = {10.1002/mds.870070405}, issn = {0885-3185}, journal = {Mov Disord}, keywords = {anxiety, choking, golf, psychophysiological, yips}, month = {October}, number = {4}, pages = {326--332}, posted-at = {2007-09-13 07:32:55}, priority = {2}, title = {Golfers' cramp: clinical characteristics and evidence against it being an anxiety disorder.}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/mds.870070405}, volume = {7}, year = {1992} }

TY - JOUR ID - Sac92 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1650662 N2 - The clinical characteristics of 20 golfers suffering from golfers' cramp or the "yips" are described. The typical description is that of a middle-aged golfer who has played competitive golf since his teens and develops the problem during a tournament in the form of a jerk, spasm, or freezing of movement while putting or chipping, with the rest of the game being relatively unaffected. The problem generally takes a chronic fluctuating course, and a number of 'trick' strategies are partially or fully successful. In this study, the subjects were compared with a matched group of 20 unaffected golfers on a number of indices of psychopathology; no significant differences emerged. The more severely affected golfers also did not differ significantly from the mildly affected ones, except on the subjective report of anxiety. These data support the argument that golfers' cramp is not an anxiety disorder or a neurosis. The important role of anxiety and arousal in its manifestation is, nevertheless, recognized and its pathophysiology speculated upon. IS - 4 JF - Mov Disord SN - 0885-3185 AD - Neuropsychiatric Institute, Prince Henry Hospital, Little Bay, Sydney, Australia. EP - 332 TI - Golfers' cramp: clinical characteristics and evidence against it being an anxiety disorder. VL - 7 SP - 326 KW - anxiety KW - choking KW - golf KW - psychophysiological KW - yips AU - Sachdev, P PY - 1992/10// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/mds.870070405 ER -