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Why do players struggle finding their original mechanics and mental game following an injury or surgery well after they are medically fit? Why do the yips infect players’ mental game following an injury or surgery? It’s because at the moment of their injury or learning they needed surgery, fear and anxiety yips entered their minds and their thoughts: “I may never play again”, “My career is over” “Will I ever throw like I used to?”
One doctor may say an encouraging remark such as, “You’ll be OK. There’s a 95% chance after surgery that you will be as good as new.” The player only hears it as a negative. The player’s next thought is, “What if I am the 5% who never makes a full comeback?” It’s the “What if” thoughts that originally disconnect high school baseball and softball players, minor and major leagues players from their mental toughness. “What if” thoughts fuel anxiety that opens the yips’ Pandora Box of “What if this, What if that” like a runaway train of uncontrollable negative thoughts taking over baseball players. Sports psychology and coaching suggestions and mental rehearsing and “think positive” can’t touch yips.
What if thoughts introduces DOUBT for the first time in a baseball player’s mind. They have throwing problems yips of anxiety and tension. Yips throwing problems makes wild pitches and throws. Psychology for sports books offers no relief for the throwing yips. Players lose their mental game and mental toughness quickly. Coaching doesn’t help the yips get better. Sport psychology doesn’t either as they don’t get where the problems resides. It is found in the right brain. The more you try to left brain analyze and understand why you have the yips, the yips throwing problems get worse.
My method is the only proven and documented cure for the yips beginning 1983. Injuries and surgeries are not the only way the yips occur, but are one of the triggers for baseball yips for players contacting me to cure the yips in only a couple of hours over the phone. Imagine your freedom from the yips; it’s easier than you think!
SOMETIMES “YIPS” CAN FOLLOW AN INJURY OR A SURGERY
Many of Major League Baseball’s classic players who had throwing problems caused by the yips including the famous cases like Chuck Knoblauch, Mackey Sasser, Steve Blass, Mark Wohlers, Steve Sax, Rick Ankiel, and outfielder Shawn Green, can remember the yips first appearing after an injury or surgery for a sports related condition.
Physicians, coaches and other sports psychologists have grappled with the yips, but lacked the experience of Dr. Richard Crowley, so they failed to correctly identify or treat the source of the problem, the inner opponent.
Dr. Richard “Yips” Crowley can cure the baseball “yips” and reconnect your mental game and mental toughness in about two hours over the telephone. Click here to see if you have the yips!
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