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Balance difficulties do turn up more often in ADHD, by something like half again. That is a fact about company, not about cause, and it does not turn balance training into a treatment.
Plenty of things could sit behind a link like that. More falls and knocks, more risk taken, or genetics feeding both at once. Working on balance because balance is poor is perfectly sensible on its own terms. Expecting attention to improve as a result is where the reasoning slips, and it is the same slip sitting under most alternative treatments for ADHD.
Qur’an and Sunnah
to know how to count and calculate (Quran 17:12). Counting how often two things appear together is the beginning of the reckoning, not the end of it.
وَجَعَلۡنَا ٱلَّيۡلَ وَٱلنَّهَارَ ءَايَتَيۡنِۖ فَمَحَوۡنَآ ءَايَةَ ٱلَّيۡلِ وَجَعَلۡنَآ ءَايَةَ ٱلنَّهَارِ مُبۡصِرَةࣰ لِّتَبۡتَغُواْ فَضۡلࣰ ا مِّن رَّبِّكُمۡ وَلِتَعۡلَمُواْ عَدَدَ ٱلسِّنِينَ وَٱلۡحِسَابَۚ وَكُلَّ شَيۡءࣲ فَصَّلۡنَٰهُ تَفۡصِيلࣰ ا
We made the night and the day as two signs, then darkened the night and made the daylight for seeing, for you to seek your Lord’s bounty and to know how to count the years and calculate. We have explained everything in detail
Qur’an 17:12read it in the library
Translation: M.A.S. Abdel Haleem, The Qur'an, Oxford University Press, 2004.
What the research says
The same caution applies to findings people quote with confidence. A literature review of screen time in children and adolescents found associations with a range of physical and psychological problems, while noting that its design could not separate cause from consequence. A strong association still leaves the direction of the arrow unknown.
Lissak G. (2018). Adverse physiological and psychological effects of screen time on children and adolescents: Literature review and case study.. Environmental research doi
Strength of evidence: one line of research. A single study, or a theoretical account.
Why it works
Two things can travel together because a third thing is producing both.
This one is still a draft. It is waiting on a scholar and a clinician to read it before it is published.
Near this one
Try swapping the word picky for particular. A fair number of people with ADHD have more densely packed taste buds, so the bitterness in a sprout arrives at full volume.
In one trial, children were given omegas with a multivitamin, omegas alone, or neither, and after fifteen weeks everybody got both. The omega groups gained on set shifting and attention, and the children who started with nothing caught up once they crossed over.
With EEG neurofeedback, the weaker the study, the better the results look. Six large trials using sham feedback, with parents and teachers kept unaware of who received what, found nothing beyond placebo.