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What's the Difference Between a Routine Annual Physical and an Executive Physical?
Having regular physical exams is an important part of helping you stay healthy, especially as you get older. Regular health exams provide essential preventive care while looking for subtle signs of problems so that they can be treated as soon as possible.
Still, as important as those exams are, it’s not always easy to find the time to get the preventive care you need to avoid health issues, particularly if your schedule is already jam-packed with work and personal obligations. That’s when an executive physical can help.
Lianet R Tuduri, MD, and the team at Personal ConciergMed in Coral Gables, Florida, offer executive physical exams focused on providing complete, comprehensive evaluations and testing in a single office visit, along with plenty of time to get advice and discuss your health-related concerns. In this post, learn more about executive physicals and how they compare to the “regular” physicals you’re probably used to.
Why you need an annual physical exam
Yearly exams are important for many reasons, helping you stay healthy now while setting the stage for a healthy future, too. Having exams on an annual basis allows Dr. Tuduri to keep an ongoing record of your health, making updates as needed and monitoring for subtle changes that could indicate the early stages of a problem or a developing risk factor.
During an exam, Dr. Tuduri performs a series of physical evaluations and recommends health screenings based on your age, gender, and other risk factors. She may recommend immunizations or encourage lifestyle changes to help you lead a healthier, more productive, and satisfying life.
Regular physical exams also provide plenty of time to ask questions and discuss health-related concerns, and they help you develop a deep rapport with your provider. Executive physicals offer all those benefits and lots more.
Executive physical vs. routine physical
Executive physicals are focused on the same goals as a “regular” physical exam: improving your health now and in the future. But the evaluations they offer are more comprehensive, and the way they deliver those evaluations is far more convenient, tailored to the added demands of a high-stress, extremely busy executive lifestyle.
Specifically, tests and screenings can be completed on the same day as your overall physical exam, making it easier to fit those screenings into a schedule that’s already jam-packed with responsibilities. Depending on your unique needs, your exam may include:
- Comprehensive blood testing, including a lipid panel and complete blood count
- Blood pressure and body mass index calculation
- EKG (electrocardiogram) to check your heart’s electrical activity
- Screenings for diabetes, thyroid disease, and kidney and liver disease
- Mammogram for women
- Prostate testing for men
- Bone density screening
- Colon cancer screening
- Skin cancer screening
- Vision and hearing tests
- Immunizations as needed
- Nutritional assessment
- Overall fitness assessment and recommendations
- Risk factor evaluations
- Stress and mental health screening
Additional advanced testing and whole-body scans using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) are also available.
Offering more exam and testing options within a single appointment day makes it easier to stick with your personal health plan and testing recommendations since there’s no need to block off additional days for screenings and lab work. Plus, it means you’ll get your results faster, so we can work together to create a health management plan optimized for your needs.
Find out more about executive physical exams
Having an executive physical enables you to enjoy all the benefits of a regular physical exam and then some — all during a single, convenient visit. To learn more about executive physical exams or to schedule one for yourself, request an appointment online or over the phone with Dr. Tuduri and the team at Personal ConciergMed in Coral Gables, Florida today.