Do you need a referral?
No. You can arrange an assessment yourself, and the report goes to whichever clinician you name.
How it works without a referral
You call, we work out together which assessments answer the question you actually have, and you book. At the appointment you name the clinician who should receive the report. That is the whole process.
The reason this matters is that the people who most need these measurements are often the ones least likely to be referred for them. Someone with burning feet and a normal nerve conduction study has usually already been told nothing is wrong. Someone whose walking distance has quietly halved over two years has generally not mentioned it to anyone.
Why involving your own doctor is still a good idea
Not because it is required, but because the report is more useful in the hands of someone who knows your history. A measurement in isolation is a number; a measurement read against your medications, your previous results and your examination is information.
Take the report to them, or have us send it. Either works. Getting results into the chart covers what happens on their end.
If your doctor has said it is unnecessary
For a healthy adult under 50 with no risk factors, that is a reasonable position and probably the right one. For anyone in the risk group — over 50 with a cardiovascular risk factor, over 70, hypertensive, overweight, a smoker or diabetic — it is a conversation worth having, and it goes better with a specific question than a general request.
Questions worth asking has some that tend to work, such as whether insulin has ever been measured alongside glucose, or whether small-fiber function can be tested separately from a nerve conduction study.
What we will not do
We will not tell you to stop or change a medication, we will not interpret the report as a diagnosis on its own, and we will not treat anything. Measura measures. Every result is reviewed with a clinician, and turning it into a diagnosis and a plan is a clinical relationship. Medical disclaimer.
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Medically reviewed by Dr. Gurpreet Singh Padda, MD, MBA, MHP, medical director of Measura. Last reviewed .