About
About Measura
Measura exists because the things that decide how well people age are measurable, and almost nobody measures them.
The idea
Ordinary medical care is very good at responding to events. It is much weaker at detecting the long, silent slope that leads to one. By the time an artery narrows enough to cause pain on walking, the process has been running for years. By the time numbness in the feet is obvious, the small nerve fibers that produce it have already been damaged. By the time a person falls, the balance system has usually been degrading quietly for a long while.
Each of those slopes has an objective measurement attached to it. Most of those measurements are non-invasive, take minutes, and can be repeated to show whether something is getting better. Measura is a deliberate assembly of them.
The principle behind the name
Unmeasured is unmanaged. A clinician managing blood pressure has a number. A clinician managing autonomic dysfunction, small-fiber loss or vascular stiffness usually has an impression. The point of this suite is to replace the impression with a reading that can be compared against the same reading six months later.
What Measura is not
- It is not a diagnosis. The assessments produce measurements; a clinician who knows your history turns those into a diagnosis.
- It is not a treatment. Nothing in the suite treats anything.
- It is not a substitute for the care you already have. The report is written to be handed to your own physician.
- It is not a single test. It is a suite of roughly fifteen assessments, and which ones are used depends on the question being asked.
Two audiences, one set of instruments
Measura is read by two very different people. A patient wants to know what a test feels like and what the number means for them. A physician wants to know what the study detects, how early, and what changes as a result. Rather than write one page that half-serves both, the site is split: the patient track and the physician track cover the same instruments in different language.
Medical direction
Measura operates under the medical direction of Dr. Gurpreet Singh Padda, MD, MBA, MHP, in St. Louis, Missouri. Testing is delivered at 4477 Woodson Rd, Suite 201, and results are reviewed with a clinician before any conclusion is drawn from them.
Talk to someone about testing
Tell us what you are trying to find out and we will explain which Measura assessments answer that question, what each one involves, and how the results are reviewed with a clinician.
4477 Woodson Rd, Suite 201, St. Louis, MO 63134. Monday to Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Please do not send symptoms, diagnoses or images through a web form — a website form is not a secure medical channel. Call us with clinical detail.
Common questions
Is Measura a laboratory?
Most of the suite is performed in the office with non-invasive equipment. Laboratory panels, where ordered, are processed by a clinical laboratory. How the laboratory work is handled.
Is it available outside St. Louis?
The testing suite is in St. Louis, Missouri, and that is where assessments are performed. Directions and travel times.
Who reads the results?
A clinician, with you, in context. How to read your report.
About Dr. Padda
Dr. Gurpreet Singh Padda, MD, MBA, MHP is the medical director of Measura. He is board certified in anesthesiology, interventional pain management, addiction medicine and obesity medicine, and holds a Master of Business Administration and a Master of Health Professions education degree. He practices in St. Louis, Missouri.
His clinical work sits at the intersection this testing was built for: patients whose pain, fatigue, numbness or dizziness turn out to be driven by vascular, autonomic and metabolic problems that nobody had measured. Measura exists because he kept finding those problems late, and wanted a way to find them earlier. Read more about Dr. Padda.
Board certifications, societies and affiliations
Certificate and license numbers are deliberately not published. Dr. Padda’s National Provider Identifier is 1427035955.
Medically reviewed by Dr. Gurpreet Singh Padda, MD, MBA, MHP, medical director of Measura. Last reviewed .