What are Yips? (Mayo Clinic video)

Yips are involuntary wrist spasms that occur most commonly when golfers are trying to putt. However, the yips can also affect people who play other sports - such as cricket, darts and baseball.

It was once thought that the yips were always associated with performance anxiety. However, it now appears that some people have yips that are caused by a focal dystonia, which is a neurological dysfunction affecting specific muscles.



Charles H. Adler, M.D., neurologist at Mayo Clinic in Arizona, discusses study findings related to the yips, a condition affecting a significant number of already anxious golfers during putting or chipping.

References:

Yips. Mayo Clinic.

Vaccines prevent this: Infant girl with whooping cough (Mayo Clinic video)

While the pertussis infection can be mild in adults (often it is quite severe though), if a baby who hasn't received a full course of vaccinations is infected, whooping cough can be extremely serious. Mayo Clinic News reporter has more on how to recognize and treat this potentially deadly disease:



Infant girl with whooping cough -- Mother holding infant girl in Intensive Care Unit. The baby has pertussis (whooping cough) and is coughing severely. Warning: the video is hard to watch.



Everyone should receive the indicated vaccines to prevent potentially deadly diseases such as pertussis.

What are the new Maintenance of Certification (MOC) requirements? (Mayo Clinic video)

Dr. Ting, on behalf of Mayo Clinic presents on the new Maintenance of Certification requirements. He reviews the requirements for physicians in all stages of practice and what they will mean for them.



After you watch the video, you begin to realize that Dr. Wes and Dr. Mandrola have a point. Some of their blog posts on the topic are listed below. What do you think?

http://drwes.blogspot.com/2014/05/when-we-reward-regulators-more-than.html

http://drwes.blogspot.com/2014/05/whos-in.html

http://drwes.blogspot.com/2014/04/abim-thumbs-its-nose-at-senior-us.html

http://drwes.blogspot.com/2014/04/paid-nejm-subscriptions-theres-no-such.html

http://drwes.blogspot.com/2014/04/the-business-of-testing-physicians.html

http://drwes.blogspot.com/2014/04/mandrola-time-out-for-abim-moc-mandate.html

http://drwes.blogspot.com/2014/03/is-maintenance-of-certification-our.html

http://drwes.blogspot.com/2014/03/a-quiz-is-maintenance-of-certification.html

http://drwes.blogspot.com/2014/02/maintenance-of-certification-noose.html

http://www.drjohnm.org/2014/05/struggling-with-the-relative-value-of-humanistic-medical-care/