Neurofeedback for the enhancement of dynamic balance of judokas

Neurofeedback for the enhancement of dynamic balance INTRODUCTION It is obvious that competitive sport aims to ensure achieving the best results. Psychologists doing research over the decades on what determines why only some players, despite the fact that in terms of physical, technical and tactical skills are prepared the same as the others, are more successful. It should also be noted here that the basis of sport success is optimum preparation in pure terms of sport, and mental work such as biofeedback can strengthen the preparation, and enable sources resulting from its potential. Neurofeedback is a more sophisticated form of biofeedback. Researchers in the past three decades have studied the effect of modifying brain waves or electroencephalography (EEG) on the mental aspect of the players. The person subjected to neurofeedback training learns to control their own brain waves. This is done on the basis of biofeedback. The sensors attached to the scalp receive current brain waves and transmit them to the EEG, which are amplified and presented in the form of e.g. video games. Neurofeedback training has different functional areas. Hammond's research [1, 2] focused on reducing anxiety and Walker and Kozlowsky [3] dealt with the treatment of epilepsy, while Monastra [4] conducted research on the treatment of ADD/ADHD. Others, such as Chung-Hee et al. [5], tried to find effects of concentration training with brainwave biofeedback on tennis performance.