Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) – manual medicine, neurophysiological, and child neuropsychiatric findings

Abstract

Motor deficits can be demonstrated clinically and neurophysiologically in children with ADHD. Because many of these children are referred to practitioners of manual medicine for a wide variety of reasons, an occasionally claimed causal relationship between ADHD symptoms and manual-medicine-defined functional disorders of the musculoskeletal system is of interest. In this neurophysiological study (transcranial magnetic stimulation), a defined sample of 13 children with ADHD underwent manual-medicine examination and was compared with a control group.