The Impact of Neurofeedback Training on Anxiety Reduction: A Case Study on a Retired Elite Powerlifting Athlete
Journal Title: The 1st Annual Meeting of Georgian Center for Neuroscience Research - Year 2020, Vol 2, Issue 20
Abstract
Background and Aim: Retirement is a stressful situation that most employed persons may experiencing that. Career termination among elite athletes can produce more pressure on them, because they experience this situation in their late years of youth or early middle age period, and these stages are age of development and maturity of employment for their peers. The aim of current study was assessing the impact of neurofeedback training on reducing of anxiety of a retired elite athlete of powerlifting. Methods: This study is a case study with an AB single subject design. The participant was a 42 years old woman athletes that she was a champion in several national powerlifting competitions. She suffered from anxiety signs after her retirement. She completed the Beck’s anxiety inventory and assessed with ClinicalQ method in baseline and post-treatment. In this case, the asymmetry of Beta in frontal lobe was associated with anxiety; this indicator had been determined as protocol of neurofeedback training. The participant received 32 sessions of neurofeedback training, 2 sessions per week. The data was analyzed with differences of baseline and post treatment divide baseline (A-B/A) as the ratio of improvement. Results: The results of present study demonstrate that participant had improvement in anxiety (d=0.41) and beta asymmetry in frontal lobe (d=0.56). Conclusion: The results of present study have been indicating that neurofeedback training can significantly reduce anxiety and help to elite athletes for overcoming anxiety and related states of career terminate.
Authors and Affiliations
S. Mohammadreza Alavizadeh, Nasser Sobhi Gharamaleki, Somaye Entezari, S. Mohammad Noorbakhsh, S. Ali Noorbakhsh
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