Welcome to Hacking Your ADHD. I'm your host, William Kerb, and I have ADHD. On this

podcast, I had to get into the tools, tactics, and best practices to help you work with your ADHD brain.

Today, I'm joined by Sky Waterson for our research recap series. In this series, we take a look at a

single research paper and dive into what the paper says, how it was conducted, and try and find

any practical

takeaways.

In this episode, we're going to be discussing a paper called Pain Associated Diagnosis

in Childhood before the Diagnosis of ADHD.

So what we're going to be looking at is exactly what the paper's talking about.

Kids who eventually did get diagnosed with ADHD, did they show higher rates of pain-related medical visits before their ADHD diagnosis?

And this is kind of an important question to ask because around a quarter of chronic pain patients are also diagnosed with ADHD.

All right.

Let's get into it.

Yeah, so this paper is so interesting because it's about

did pain diagnosis before the ADHD.

And they looked at this, you know, they looked at a lot of different kinds of

pains of headaches, multiskeleal of pain, they looked at tension headaches, all those kinds of things in kids specifically.

What they were looking for was, you know, they wanted to see comprehensively if people were,

you know, who were later diagnosed having ADHD, were getting medication for this kind of thing or getting, you know,

support for this. And it was a population-based case control study. So a lot of members got

included in the overall group. Yeah, because they looked initially at over, like, they

looked at, yeah, over 700,000 people.

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