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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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.
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What Happens Before Your Appointment
Most of the history is collected beforehand, so the appointment itself is spent measuring rather than typing. What to tell us, and what to bring.
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Which Laboratory Runs the Blood Work
Where blood work is part of the plan it is drawn at the same visit. Which panels are selected, and the markers a standard annual panel usually leaves out.
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Quality Measures That Cardiometabolic Testing Supports
Most of what these assessments produce is documentation a practice already has to generate. The difference is that it is measured rather than attested.