It's important to maintain your general health as well as you can, and part of that is to have regular examinations from our GP home doctor service for general health check-ups in Costa del Sol.
What Will Our GP Home Doctor Service Look At in a General Health Check-Up?
When you use our GP home doctor service for general health check-ups in Costa del Sol, they'll check over most of the basic systems in your body. This will include:
- the heart system
- the lung system
- the gut system
- the nerve system
Why Use Our GP Home Doctor Service for General Health Check-Ups in Costa del Sol?
A full health check-up is designed to confirm or deny the presence of any potential health issues and to identify any previously undiscovered illnesses with the potential to become fatal if ignored.
In many cases general health check-ups are key to catching potentially fatal illnesses early enough to treat them and minimize their effects, potentially even curing them.
As medicine and medical examinations have developed, we are able to identify many diseases and diseases much earlier than ever before. Modern technology enables our GP home doctor service for general health check-ups in Costa del Sol to detect conditions that would have previously been unnoticed by a physical exam such as prostate or colon cancer.
What Happens During a Physical Examination?
Before our GP home doctor service for general health check-ups in Costa del Sol carry our physical examination they will ask for your consent. You may wish to have a chaperone present for your check-up as a full check-up can sometimes require parts of the body to be exposed.
A full health check will usually start by checking your vital signs including:
- heart rate
- blood pressure
- respiratory rate
- temperature
A full GP health check-up will usually consist of four parts:
- inspecting the body for visible signs of illness
- feeling for signs of any illness
- tapping for signs of any illness for example when checking the lungs or gut
- listening for any sounds of illness with a stethoscope.
Our GP home doctor service for general health check-ups in Costa del Sol will not necessarily use each of these parts depending on your condition and previous health history. However, your examination will usually consist of a few of the above techniques.
Whichever physical examinations techniques used in your general check-up, the aim will always be to determine any illnesses or diseases you may have that are as yet undiagnosed.
The doctor carrying out your examination will do all they can to make as comfortable as possible. However, there may be instances where you feel some pain, especially if the examination identifies some physical signs of illness.
After your physical examination, your doctor will discuss their initial clinical findings with you. Then, depending on your medical history and current examinations, the doctor will recommend the next course of action.
If you are in need of a full examination and would like to know more about our GP home doctor service for general health check-ups in Costa del Sol, visit our website.