Thursday, August 22, 2013

Adopt healthy lifestyle with regular physical exams


Health screening is the preventive care that is provided by executing different types of lifesaving medical tests in order to reveal the potential life-threatening diseases before they could occur or become more serious.
Health screening sometimes referred to as physical examinations or body exams are a part of patient care provided by the health clinics. You may have heard the expression, “prevention is better than cure”. In the same way, early detection of infections or severe health conditions, or diseases is important not only to ensure that you will never come into the clutch of life-threatening health issues but also save your cost of expensive medical treatments.
Therefore, periodic body exams need to be conducted to always be informed about the current health status. Doctors execute various procedures to provide patients all the benefits associated with physical exams. Mentioned below are the most common benefits associated with healthcare screening:
  • Human body is constantly changing living creators. You never know when the infections or bacteria of sever disease begin to grow in your body. Therefore, regular body exams help you determining the symptoms of diseases in their early stages. As a result, doctors (in case patient is found with the signs of potential disease) depending upon the examination reports can start the appropriate treatment to save your life.
  • This also encourages heath awareness among people.
  • A complete bodily exam is more cost effective than treating a sever health condition.
What does a comprehensive physical test involve?
A basic physical test should include:
  1. Analysis of individuals’ medical history: Before starting with the body tests, doctors review the patients’ previous health records, family medical history, medications etc. As a result of this analysis, your family or regular doctor come to know that what type of tests are required.
  2. Body Examination: Body examination involves the execution of various types of tests like cardiac diagnosis tests, blood pressure reading, cholesterol screening, diabetes screening etc., and test of other major body parts.
  3. Laboratory examinations:
It includes variety of tests like test on the collected specimens of blood and urine that reveals the internal infections or diseases that are not easily come into the notice with body exams.
  1. Additional exams:
Other tests like E.C.G, Ultrasound, X-ray etc., are also come in the comprehensive body test program.
Who should undergo physical tests?
Adults of all ages can undergo health screenings. It is advised to those with family history of severe diseases to for checkup on regular basis. People above the age of 40 are at higher risks of developing diseases or heath conditions due to lifestyle, diet, environment and the nature of work, and other situations etc.
Scheduling regular healthcare screening helps you keeping up-to-date with the present health status with high degree of accuracy.

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