A healthy style of living is a prerequisite for a long and healthy life. Job-related and negative stress, unhealthy living and eating habits, environmental loads, and lack of rest are counter-productive. Given these circumstances a regular health check, also called CHECK-UP, is the best basis to retain your physical and mental health.
 
What is a CHECK-UP?
 
A CHECK-UP is a specific program to assess your health condition. It consists of different and detailed examinations and consultation with respect to health prevention. Thereby world-wide newest findings from preventive and extended medicine will be taken into account. An individual functional assessment of all body organs will deliver indicators on body diseases or hidden impairments. By this means potential risk factors regarding vascular damages or the health of bones and cells will be discovered early before they arise to an earnest problem to your overall health.

What are the advantages of a periodical CHECK-UP?
 
Conducting a CHECK-UP it′s results and realization foster health and avoid diseases. The advantage arises through early discovery of disorders potentially avoiding a long-lasting illness. A routinely medical examination seeks out not only lurking diseases but also the potential risks of diseases. Research has shown that patients performing regular CHECK-Ups are delighted in a noticeable superior health and increased expectation of life in relation to those which consult a doctor not before they sense the disease themselves. Diseases like those of coronary vessels, cancer, or diabetes are the most dangerous and popular for adults are often avoidable by preventive examinations. The extended and periodical CHECK-UP is more complete because it not only concentrates on the symptoms the patient suffers from but also traces the causes which could be eliminated then.
 
The application of medical measures in the sense of the extended medicine takes place before symptoms of a disease as well as health disorders become seriously hazardous. As a consequence the healing probability for a discovered or potential disease will increase significantly. Moreover, this preventive treatment only cost a fraction of what a treatment or potential stay in hospital will devour after the disease has broken out. An increasing number of people all over the world are aware of these facts and decide for a health CHECK-UP day by day.
 
Who should conduct a CHECK-UP?
 
The answer is very simple: In principle everybody! The periodicity depends on the lifestyle as a whole and in the past, depends on the potential endangerment, the gender, and age. A first CHECK-UP is recommended beginning with the mid-thirties. Conducting it every two to three years is advised to the age group between 40 and 50, later a health CHECK-UP once a year is the best prophylaxis. Anyone who lives health-conscious should undergo such an examination in proper intervals.
 
The main risk factors for heart diseases are inadequate nutrition, high consumption of tobacco, alteration of certain blood values (homocysteine), blood pressure abnormalities (hypertonia) and lock of movement. Discovered early enough they can be positively influenced by a corrective treatment through extended medicine. Such a periodical CHECK-UP is strongly recommended for all patients having those risk factors.

Which examinations and tests are part oft he CHECK-UP?
 
Carefully selected test methods and especially trained, experienced physicians search not only with knowledge but also with time and devotion for first sign of alterations in your body indicating a commencing disease or a health risk. By that preventive and gentle measures are taken long before your health is jeopardized.
 
Which data will be taken?

A CHECK-UP profile is created for each individual patient and no unnecessary examinations are taken. The consultation includes

• full medical record with extensive advice
• holistic and comprehensive examination
• inclusion and validation of former examinations
• inclusion of psychological influences (if any)
  

We use the laboratory examinations and tests listed below to compose your individual CHECK-UP program.

If necessary further analytical examinations will be adapted individually. Many of those apply to the body′s weakening defense (immune status), overweight, hormonal imbalance, oxidative stress and vital substance deficiencies.

Moreover, the extended medicine offers an extraordinary test on the health status in order to enforce the patient′s convalescence power for a planned surgery so that only a few or no complications are to be feared whereas the healing and the aftercare will be accelerated considerably. By the end of the examinations you will have the opportunity to discuss the analytical results with us extensively. You will be offered recommendations for further treatment in the course of the extended medicine combined with the newest scientific and practical lessons learned. Part of the CHECK-Up is an extensive and confidential report in writing which will be handed over to you.

If you are going to schedule an appointment for a CHECK-UP please take into account our information regarding the prerequisites for the examinations. E.g. some tests will require not to take any food for a given period beforehand or being tested only at a given time of the day.

"People hope for health from the gods - however they often don′t know that they are holding the key in their own hands." (Demokrit, Greek Philosopher, 350 b.c.)