EVALUATIONS & ASSESSMENTS FOR PRECISE DIAGNOSIS

These components collectively provide a comprehensive picture of an individual's physical fitness, allowing for tailored exercise prescriptions, identification of areas for improvement, and monitoring progress over time.

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Components of exercise testing and fitness assessments include:

1. Health History and Physical Activity Questionnaire: Gathering information about the individual's medical history, current medications, previous injuries, and lifestyle habits, including physical activity levels.

2. Resting Measurements: Assessing baseline measurements such as height, weight, body composition (body fat percentage), resting heart rate, and blood pressure.

3. Cardiorespiratory Fitness: Evaluating aerobic capacity and cardiovascular health through tests like the maximal oxygen uptake (VO2 max) test, submaximal or maximal exercise tests on a treadmill or stationary bike, or the 6-minute walk test.

4. Muscular Strength and Endurance: Assessing the individual's strength and endurance capabilities through exercises like push-ups, sit-ups, squats, or the one-repetition maximum (1RM) test.

5. Flexibility: Evaluating the individual's range of motion and flexibility using tests like the sit-and-reach test or specific joint range of motion assessments.

6. Balance and Stability: Assessing the individual's balance and stability through tests like the single-leg balance test, Y-Balance Test, or other balance assessments.

7. Agility and Speed: Testing the individual's ability to change direction quickly and move with speed through drills like the shuttle run, agility ladder exercises, or the T-test.

8. Power: Measuring an individual's explosive power using tests such as the vertical jump, medicine ball throws, or power cleans.

9. Functional Movement Assessment: Evaluating the individual's movement patterns and identifying any imbalances or dysfunctions that may affect performance or increase the risk of injury, using tools like the Functional Movement Screen (FMS) or other movement screening protocols.

10. Psychological Assessments: Assessing an individual's motivation, confidence, and psychological readiness for exercise through questionnaires or interviews.

11. Anthropometric Measurements: Measuring various body dimensions like circumference of the waist, hips, chest, and limbs to assess body proportions.

12. Flexibility: Evaluating the individual's range of motion and flexibility using tests like the sit-and-reach test or specific joint range of motion assessments.

13. Blood Lipid Profile: Assessing blood cholesterol and triglyceride levels to evaluate cardiovascular health and risk factors.  Dennis Romatz does not administer Blood Lipid Profile test.  We work closely with Samitavej Hospital and can refer you to our specialist.

14. Blood Glucose Assessment: Measuring fasting blood glucose levels to assess diabetes risk and overall metabolic health.  Dennis Romatz does not administer Blood Glucose tests.  We do utilize Blood Glucose Kits, but results are limited and we prefer to have our clients get thoroughly tested at a hospital.  We work closely with Samitavej Hospital and can refer you to our specialist.

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The list of tests I perform include, but are not limited to:

• Resting Heart Rate

• Resting Blood Pressure

• Height / Weight

• Body Fat Composition

• Visceral Fat

• BMR (Basal Metabolic Rate)

• Aerobic Endurance

• Cardio Respiratory Recovery Rate

• Muscular Strength

• Muscular Endurance

• Movement & stability in all planes

• Flexibility

• Strength

• Posture

• Agility

• Coordination

• Speed

• Power

• Balance

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I also check for skeletal asymmetries which could be cause by under performing and over performing related muscles, habitual asymmetrical movement patterns, joint and vertebral compression as well as disfunctional femoral external rotations.