Articles
Plain explanations of what these assessments measure, written for the person having them and for the clinician reading the report.
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Standing Orders: Making Screening Reproducible
Selection by clinical impression cannot be audited and is not reproducible. A written rule applied at intake makes it so.
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Cognitive Screening: What a Baseline Is For
A single screening score is close to uninterpretable. Two scores, taken the same way two years apart, are one of the more informative things in a chart.
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Dizziness and the Risk of Falling
Feeling unsteady is not inevitable with age. It is a failure of specific, measurable systems — and which one is failing determines what helps.
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Heart Rate Variability: What the Number Means
There is no single good value, your watch and a clinical device will disagree, and the only comparison worth making is against yourself under the same conditions.
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Why a Normal Ankle-Brachial Index Can Be Misleading
A calcified artery cannot be squeezed. The cuff reads high, the ratio looks fine, and a leg with real disease produces a reassuring number.
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Leg Pain When You Walk: Claudication Explained
Cramping that appears at a predictable distance and disappears within minutes of stopping is one of the few symptoms with a simple objective test behind it.
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Burning Feet at Night: What It Can Mean
Burning that gets worse when you lie down, worse under the bedcovers, and better when you walk around is a fairly specific pattern with a specific set of causes.