What Constitutes a Routine Check-up?
An annual examination, commonly termed a physical examination, is a typical medical evaluation done by a doctor to determine your health status.
Essentially, it is a preventive treatment through which it becomes easier to solve any health complications that might develop in the future.
A typical routine check-up might include the following components:
- Medical History: This entails going through one’s and family's medical history to know the level of risk.
- Vital Signs Assessment: Monitoring activities like taking blood pressure, pulse, respiratory rate, and temperature.
- Physical Examination: Lay, the doctor looks for clinical evidence of diseases that might be present or precursors of diseases that might be likely to develop in the future. This entails physical signs, feeling with the fingers particular areas of the body, and many other actions.
- Laboratory Tests: Blood and urine tests are routine tests and the doctor may be checking for many things like sugar level, cholesterol level, liver function, and many more.
- Preventive Screenings: Cholesterol tests for example may follow age, sex, and prior health while tests for cancer, osteoporosis, or any other cardiovascular condition may also be recommended.
- Lifestyle Assessment: Involves assessment of the patient’s dietary habits, physical activity, or drug and alcohol habits to give appropriate lifestyle counseling.
We Provided All Types of Routine Check Ups
The Role of Rama Care As A Health Care Provider
Rama Care is also uniquely placed in this facet as a healthcare provider where they provide different routine check-ups, majoring in routine tests that can be relevant to the various general health statuses of our patients.
We are devoted to the highest standards of clinical practice while focusing on individual patient treatment to tailor the clients’ health management plans to optimize outcomes.
To some extent, the services at Rama Care are aimed not only at the treatment of existing diseases but also at disease prevention, the proliferation of which may be prevented with the help of regular check-ups and stationing of the necessary information.
We are devoted to the highest standards of clinical practice while focusing on individual patient treatment to tailor the clients’ health management plans to optimize outcomes. To some extent, the services at Rama Care are aimed not only at the treatment of existing diseases but also at disease prevention, the proliferation of which may be prevented with the help of regular check-ups and stationing of the necessary information.
Our approach includes
- Personalized Health Strategies: Implementing and/or modifying health programs according to patients’ status and the results of the test.
- State-of-the-art Diagnostic Tools: Applying up-to-date diagnostic equipment as well as monitoring systems that are efficient in the treatment process.
- Educational Support: Informing patients with essential information on how to take health care responsibilities into their own hands and cooperating with them in the processes of treatment.
Make An Appointment
Benefits of Regular Health Assessments
Early Detection of Diseases:
To be able to address ailments before they manifest, constant medical check-ups should be conducted, which is usually useful in curing the ailments.
Prevention of Health Issues:
Preventive care enables the doctor to discover potential risk factors regarding an individual’s lifestyle or inherited diseases, before the actual onset of severe disease or sickness.
Cost Savings
It can also be seen that through disease prevention techniques and early intervention, regular check-ups reduce costs that come with the treatment of chronic or severe illnesses.
Peace of Mind:
This strategy enables the reduction of anxieties arising from everyone’s unique experiences with sickness and disease since check-ups offer assurance and instill trust in patients regarding their health status.
Frequency of Routine Check-ups
The schedule of the ordinary health check-ups may be different depending on the age, and some other conditions such as the sex of the patient, their general health condition as well and their susceptibility to certain diseases.
Generally, guidelines suggest:
- Children and Adolescents: Regular check-ups are probably advisable as children are very active and can experience state changes in a short time.
- Adults up to Age 50: It is also recommended that a healthy adult should go for a check-up at least every 1-2 years even if she or he does not think that they are having a disease.
- Older Adults: Adults also require checkups for diseases that increase in prevalence with age and for those above fifty years, it is recommended that they should be checked once per year.
- Individuals with Chronic Conditions: Special cases may require more checkups than the recommended ones, especially if one has a chronic disease such as diabetes, high blood pressure, or heart disease.
Some of the recommended screenings include blood pressure, cholesterol, screening for diabetes, cancer, mammograms and colonoscopy, and osteoporosis based on age, sex, and medical history.
If necessary, quite fast, for example, before taking blood samples.
It is preferable to list all the symptoms that one may experience, all the medicines that one takes, and any questions that one may need to ask the doctor.
Wear casual clothing to the appointment and DO NOT wear nail varnish or lipstick, if having certain tests done.
Consult your doctor and obey his/her instructions which may involve carrying out more tests, beginning a treatment process, or referring you to a specialist.
Make yourself knowledgeable about your health and be an active participant in your health care.
Keep a health diary to always jot down your symptoms, effects of the medication as well as changes in your lifestyle.
Many people own phones and various health applications are available such as for tracking weight and blood pressure among others and the results should be taken to the clinic.
