February 19, 2010     Permalink Neurofeedback for Peak Performance - at the 2010 Olympics Submitted by Dr. Clare Albright

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Canada's freestyle ski team & women's hockey team used neurofeedback in the Olympics-Get in the Zone w/ Neurofeedback: .ly/bljmUx

Penny Werthner, a sports psychologist who works with the Canadian freestyle skiing teams and the women's hockey team is a former track athlete who competed in the Montreal Games in 1976.

Prior to this year's Games, as part of the unprecedented Own the Podium program, Werthner, a University of Ottawa professor, worked with Jenn Heil and Alexandre Bilodeau and others, helping them learn to manage their stress.

She used techniques like neurofeedback to help the athletes recognize when they were anxious, how their bodies responded to the emotion and how to get past it.