Zack Lynch, managing editor at NeuroInsights and blogger at CORANTE … told the story of Jordan Kreuter … an 18 year old golfer who used neurofeedback to improve his score … and the trend is growing. In Lynch’s words “They've all turned to neurofeedback, a technique that promises to help athletes reprogram their brains so they can reach a zone of relaxed concentration during clutch situations.” 
It’s a way of bringing new facts about the fact to bear on the mental sides of sports like golf. If you know how brain waves, concentration, relaxation, and mental control work … it makes sense…. What do you think?
Lynch tells how … “neurofeedback machines even starting to show up at some local public golf courses. Several members of Italy's World Cup-winning team, including Andrea Pirlo, second from lower left, did extensive neuron-feedback in the run-up to the tournament.”
This new trend is also creating new business opportunities for those in the know… “Over the past year, nearly a half dozen new neurofeedback companies have emerged from the innovation wood work to introduce themselves to NeuroInsights.”
Do you see room for neurofeedback in sports or in business as a way to reach what Lynch calls a “zone of relaxed concentration during clutch situations?” Thoughts?
Most clutch situations are contextualized and present surprises that affect us much differently than a computer screen. Those on the screen may be simulated to be scary or frightening enough, but I'm sure our brain is telling us also that this is a computer screen. Thoughts?
Posted by: Robyn McMaster | September 11, 2006 8:56 AM | Permalink to Comment