Ali
at the age of 7 diagnosed with ADHD. Then onward, he has been on medication
since last 5 years. A Psychiatrist used to prescribe the mild doses of Medications for the school and other routine activities during the day time. In case
if the parents miss the medication dose, the situation would be uncontrollable
in school and home. Ali had difficulty in concentration during school as well
as tuition class. He was very hyper active which was manifested in his behavior
and social interaction. The mother was concerned with excessive talking,
impatient and hyper activity. The MCMA team studied the medical reports and
relevant diagnosis. The Clinical Neuro Therapist initially suggested the
parents to go for 10 sessions of HEG Neurofeedback & Low Level Laser
Therapy (LLLT). As per the procedure, detailed case history was taken from the
mother. There was visible change in the reduction of hyper activity just after
6 sessions. In total, 40 therapy sessions were provided. The feedback by the
parents and the class teacher of Ali has been summarized below-
i) Reduce in Hyper
Activity
ii) Excessive improvement
for sustaining Concentration and Increase in Attention span
iii) Satisfactory Social
interaction and communication
iv) Improvement in planning
and organization
v) Started Following
Instructions in more cohesive manner
vi) A surprising effect for
his mom was that Alia's drawings have become more detailed; stick figures become
prominent, characters with a shape, form and title.
As
the improvement was quite satisfactory, the psychiatrist started reducing the
dose of anti-depressants and finally stopped it.
The statistical tool of ANOVA
was used to calculate the data of the 40 sessions divided into 1st
set of 20 sessions with 2nd set of 20 sessions. The critical value
of FÂ = 5.7 was significant at P= 0.05
level .