Early Diagnosis of Chronic Disease

Physician Practice Development is here to help your clinic provide chronic disease consultation for your patients. When someone has pain, the first place they look to for help is their family doctor. The problem is that patients often feel the symptoms before a doctor can detect the issue. Physician Practice Development can help your practice with a chronic disease risk assessment, and we’ll be able to provide early diagnosis of chronic disease for your patients.

Physician Practice Development offers diagnostic equipment essential for detecting problems early on. It's a simple process using small electrical impulses and recording the results. First, we do a Sudomotor Test with a device that stimulates the patient's sweat glands by emitting a low voltage through a glass plate.

The test results help you determine if the patient is at risk of vascular disease or neuropathy. Not only that, but the chronic disease risk assessment can identify many issues regarding the nervous system. Our chronic disease risk assessment helps determine what's going on in the heart by studying the circulation in your patient's feet and hands. Then we develop an algorithm to determine whether or not someone is at risk for peripheral vascular diseases or neuropathy.

The Ankle-Brachial Index Test (ABI) offers the ability to test the vascular system at a micro-level. It measures the ratio of blood pressure in the upper and lower body, indicating if the patient is suffering from vascular disease. The Autonomic Nervous System (ANS) records the heart-rate variability with beat-to-beat blood pressure tests and compares it to the base-line after deep-breathing, head-tilt, and Valsalva maneuver tests.

Do you want to be able to offer an early diagnosis of chronic disease to your patients? Get in touch online or give us a call to find out how we can help.