February 19, 2010 Permalink Neurofeedback for Peak Performance - at the 2010 Olympics Submitted by Dr. Clare Albright |
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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. The goal was to help them tune out things that don't matter and focus on things that did.
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.
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