5 Auxiliary Examinations for ADHD

Children with ADHD will affect their normal development and their normal life and study, so we as parents should pay attention to it and not give up on treating them. When we find that children have ADHD, we must do five auxiliary examinations. Let's take a look at the editor's detailed introduction.

1. General

The child has poor self-control, inattention, and learning difficulties. Ask the child about his history of brain trauma and birth history, whether he has premature birth, difficult labor, or cesarean section that caused brain hypoxia, ischemia, or asphyxia. Check the child's back to see if there is habitual dislocation of the cervical spine, and whether any tender points can be felt near the cervical spine.

2. Observe the symptoms

Recurrent multiple, meaningless twitching or clearing of the throat in the face, limbs, and trunk; poor self-control, inattention, and learning difficulties; red tongue edges and tips, little or no coating, and a thready pulse; ask the child about his or her history of brain trauma and birth history, whether he or she has premature birth, difficult labor, or cesarean section that resulted in cerebral hypoxia, ischemia, or asphyxia; check whether the child has habitual dislocation of the cervical spine on the back, and whether any tender points can be felt near the cervical spine.

3. Finger-pointing test

Ask the child with ADHD to clench a fist with one hand and use the thumb of the other hand to touch the tips of other fingers in turn. After completing this action, change hands and continue to repeat the previous action. You can also choose to touch the fingers in both positive and negative directions, in the order of index finger, middle finger, ring finger to little finger, or little finger, ring finger, middle finger to index finger. When completing the action, if the child's movements are not coherent and flexible, it may be diagnosed as positive.

4. Hand flip test

Ask the child to sit at the table and place both hands flat on the table, with the palms facing down first, the thumbs hanging down along the edge of the table, and the other fingers of both hands close together. When repeatedly turning the hands as fast as possible, the movements become clumsy, or even turn them randomly; when the elbows are not allowed to swing when turning the hands, the two little fingers cannot be close together, and the posture becomes more clumsy, which may be diagnosed as positive.

5. Finger-to-nose test

Ask the ADHD child to point to the tip of his nose with the index finger of his left hand, then with the index finger of his right hand, five times with his eyes open and five times with his eyes closed, and observe the child's coordination and speed in the process. ADHD children often move too heavily, are clumsy, and make many mistakes, especially when they close their eyes, when the mistakes are more obvious.

This is an introduction to the five auxiliary examinations for ADHD. I believe that after reading this article, you should know how to treat children with ADHD in the future. I hope these can help parents. We parents must take this issue seriously and take our children to a regular hospital for examination and treatment, so as not to delay the best time for treatment of the child.