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Chiropractors work to align the spine which can be misaligned for many different reasons (trauma, habitual motions, over-compensation of certain muscles). When the spine is misaligned, it puts strains on certain muscles and organs and when the body is in this unnatural state, it can cause or contribute to health conditions like certain diseases or chronic pain. When the chiropractor, through a series of 'adjustments' is able to re-align the spine, it can bring relief to physical problems which in turn aid the relief from psychological illnesses like depression.

Ritalin is not intended to improve cognitive functioning. Rather, it helps children to focus, setting the stage for improve learning in the future. Thus, whereby Ritalin is unlikely to improve a children’s academic performance overnight, it may help improve over time.

These are both examples of eastern moving meditation techniques that work by moving and manipulating the flow of 'qi' or the 'energy life-force' around the body. Sometimes, when energy is blocked in different places in the body, techniques including tai qi and qi gong, can help to redirect this energy thereby bringing healthy functioning back to the body.

Apparently so. A 12-year study on depression recently concluded that the use of medication to control both depression and ADHD has doubled. Learn more at http://www.dbtechno.com/health/2010/08/13/more-college-students-are-depressed/

Parents with children with ADHD are all too familiar with the difficulty of getting their son or daughter to “switch gears.” Similarly, children with ADHD can over-focus on seemingly insignificant details like a bird outside a classroom window. In his book Attention Deficit Disorder, Thomas E. Brown describes this tendency as “hyperfocus” or the inability to disengage one’s attention from a task, sight or sound. That said over-focusing is not among the symptoms listed in the DSM-IV's formal criteria.