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Stimulants--Physical Coordination?
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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 17091" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>I've not known physical coordination to be affected adversely by medications, but I HAVE seen kids with ADHD and similar have bad coordination anyway. I first saw it with my nephew (the one who insisted on living on Vegemite sandwiches - another post). He was amazingly unco - he would fall out of the treehouse, or down an embankment, and because he just went limp like a rag doll he never hurt himself. But he was always the kid with shirt hanging out, laces undone, hair all messy - he had poor muscle tone and was a skinny rake. </p><p>Now I see the same things with my boys. To a lesser extent with easy child 2/difficult child 2, who does manage her stiltwalking but can't imitate movements well. </p><p>But the boys - poor muscle tone, can't draw for peanuts, a mess on the playing field (although difficult child 3 did manage to score a goal in touch footie a year ago). Any game which is played fast and active, they're not good at. Anything requiring careful thought - they can be very good.</p><p>Plus the hypermobile joints - I do wonder if there is a connection there, as well, and this also makes their game playing a problem. Also means they can't manage writing implements or cutlery very well, either.</p><p></p><p>But in all these cases in think it's the disability, not the medications to treat it, because we saw the problem before medications were given. With my nephew, medications weren't available back then. And now his eldest son is just like him - only on medications.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 17091, member: 1991"] I've not known physical coordination to be affected adversely by medications, but I HAVE seen kids with ADHD and similar have bad coordination anyway. I first saw it with my nephew (the one who insisted on living on Vegemite sandwiches - another post). He was amazingly unco - he would fall out of the treehouse, or down an embankment, and because he just went limp like a rag doll he never hurt himself. But he was always the kid with shirt hanging out, laces undone, hair all messy - he had poor muscle tone and was a skinny rake. Now I see the same things with my boys. To a lesser extent with easy child 2/difficult child 2, who does manage her stiltwalking but can't imitate movements well. But the boys - poor muscle tone, can't draw for peanuts, a mess on the playing field (although difficult child 3 did manage to score a goal in touch footie a year ago). Any game which is played fast and active, they're not good at. Anything requiring careful thought - they can be very good. Plus the hypermobile joints - I do wonder if there is a connection there, as well, and this also makes their game playing a problem. Also means they can't manage writing implements or cutlery very well, either. But in all these cases in think it's the disability, not the medications to treat it, because we saw the problem before medications were given. With my nephew, medications weren't available back then. And now his eldest son is just like him - only on medications. Marg [/QUOTE]
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