Screenings:
Blood Pressure Screening
Blood pressure is the measure of the force the blood exerts on artery walls when the heart contracts (systolic) and relaxes (diastolic). The higher your blood pressure, the greater your risk for certain chronic diseases, such as heart disease, kidney disease, stroke, eye damage, and hardening of the arteries (Atherosclerosis).
Body Mass Index (BMI) Analysis
Body Mass Index (BMI) is a measure of an adult's weight in relation to his or her height. Overweight and obesity are primary risk factors for many chronic health conditions, including hypertension, high cholesterol, Type 2 diabetes, coronary heart disease, stroke, gallbladder dysfunction, osteoarthritis, sleep apnea and respiratory problems.
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Screening
COPD is a progressive disease that makes it hard to breathe, mainly caused by cigarette smoking. COPD causes coughing that produces large amounts of mucus, wheezing, shortness of breath, chest tightness, and other symptoms. Two types of lung functioning tests, spirometry and pulse oximetry, will be available in the exhibit to help determine your risks.
Peripheral Artery Disease (PAD)
Peripheral arterial disease (PAD) occurs when plaque builds up in the arteries that carry blood to your head, organs, and limbs. If you have PAD, your risk for coronary artery disease, heart attack, and stroke is greater. A simple test called an ankle-brachial index (ABI) will be used to compare blood pressure in your ankle to blood pressure in your arm. This test shows how well blood is flowing in your limbs.
Varicose Vein Screening Concerned about varicose veins? This screening evaluates you for a new one-hour laser treatment that can return you back to your normal everyday activities.
Chiropractic Society
Doctors from the Chiropractic Society will be volunteering their time to check spines for subluxation, assess posture, and answer health related questions on Chiropractic Health Care.
How Many Calories Do I Need Each Day? Nutrition Services
Learn how many calories you need on a daily basis. Using your current height, weight, age, activity level & a goal of either weight maintenance or loss, the staff will help you get a personalized "calorie prescription" for your daily calorie, along with additional tools to help you learn about portion control, tips for eating out, & overall guidance of how to choose a healthy and balanced diet each day.
Mood and Memory Screening Changes in memory may be due to more than normal aging. Participate in a short, confidential memory screening consisting of questions and tasks designed to test memory, language skills and thinking ability and other intellectual functions.
Learn the Signs of Speech or Hearing Problems
One in six Americans have some sort of communication disorder. Stop by Booth 750 and discover how to look for signs of speech or hearing problems in both children and adults.
Posture Analysis Many people experience back or neck pain when working on a computer because they don't know how to sit correctly. Are you one of them? Get a posture analysis from our graduate school faculty and students and find out how you can work and feel better.
Bone Density Screening
Determine your risk for osteoporosis with a bone density screening: a quick, painless and radiation free test recommended for post-menopausal women and men 65 yrs of age or older.
Lower Back Screening
A quick back check and spine motion measurement. Visitors will be provided with individualized recommendations for back health and how to keep a healthy spine.
Hand Germ Screening
Germs! Put your hands under our "Glow-germ" lights to see what's crawling around on your skin.
Stroke/Cardiac Screening
Carotid Artery Screening is simple, painless, noninvasive testing that takes less than ten minutes. We apply acoustic gel to your neck and scan the carotid arteries with sophisticated color flow Doppler Ultrasound. This technology allows us to clearly see these arteries to determine the presence of any dangerous plaque buildup, which can block blood flow to the brain. If there are dangerous blockages, you will have information to give to your physician for follow-up care.
Predictive Osteoporosis / Bone Density Screening Eighty percent of people affected by osteoporosis are women. Osteoporosis is usually referred to as a “silent disease,” and it is often difficult to diagnose, because the first warning sign of the disease may be a broken bone.
HIV test HIV antibody tests are the most appropriate test for routine diagnosis of HIV among adults. Antibody tests are inexpensive and very accurate. The ELISA antibody test (enzyme-linked immunoabsorbent) also known as EIA (enzyme immunoassay) was the first HIV test to be widely used.
Cholesterol test
The importance to good health of keeping your cholesterol level under control can't be overemphasized. Atherosclerosis and its complications, such as heart attacks and strokes, are the major causes of death in the United States and have reached epidemic proportions throughout the Western World. Such degeneration is responsible for 43% of all deaths in the U.S. The first step in the prevention and treatment of such diseases is the reduction of blood cholesterol levels.
Diabetes
Diabetes is a breakdown in the body's ability to utilize glucose (blood sugar) efficiently. Glucose, the main sugar into which foods are digested, can be used by our cells only in the presence of the hormone insulin. With Type 2 diabetes, the cells become resistant to the effects of insulin, and thus blood levels of glucose rise. (With Type 1, which is usually diagnosed in young people, the body virtually stops producing insulin.) The incidence of Type 2 diabetes is on the rise, largely because the U.S. population is aging and getting heavier.
Eye and Ear Test
Hearing and vision tests are given routinely to children to check that their senses are developing properly. As well as checking that vision and hearing are normal for the child, the tests look for any treatable conditions that make it difficult to hear or see, such as glue ear or a squint.
Skin health
Allergy skin tests are used to identify the allergens that trigger a patient’s allergic reactions. There are three primary skin tests: Scratch or prick test. Tiny amounts of allergens are placed on the skin, and a series of tiny scratches or needle pricks force the allergens into the skin. Intradermal test. Tiny amounts of an allergen are injected just below the skin. Patch test. An absorbent pad is soaked in an allergen and taped onto the skin of the patient for 24 to 72 hours.
Oral health
The teeth and mouth are vulnerable to many diseases and there is a lot that can go wrong which can cause ill health and deterioration of the teeth. Symptoms such as bleeding gums or pus around the teeth, bad breath (halitosis), bad taste or loosening of the teeth require intensive cleaning and aggressive oral hygiene measures by your dentist to prevent premature loss of teeth.
Herpes zoster vaccine
Shingles is a painful localized skin rash often with blisters that is caused by the varicella zoster virus (VZV), the same virus that causes chickenpox. Anyone who has had chickenpox can develop shingles because VZV remains in the nerve cells of the body after the chickenpox infection clears and VZV can reappear years later causing shingles. Shingles most commonly occurs in people 50 years old or older, people who have medical conditions that keep the immune system.
Depression-screening
Life is full of good times and bad, happiness and sorrow. But if you've been feeling "down" for more than a few weeks or are having difficulty functioning in daily life, you may be experiencing more than just the "blues." You may be suffering from a common yet serious medical illness called clinical depression. The good news is clinical depression is highly treatable. Most people with depression, however, do not seek the professional help they need -- often because they don't know the symptoms, think depression will go away on its own, or are embarrassed to talk about how they're feeling.
*Screenings will vary by event type and location.