Basic Physical Assessment Testing

Introduction

During lab assessment Ashleigh and Katie, the two operators, measured my cardiovascular blood pressure and resting heart rate, muscular strength of the right and left hand, flexibility by sit and reach, and body composition of height, weight, and skinfold. The basic physical assessment is used to measure a person’s overall health and wellness. Also, it helps a person to know their basic health level and what improvement could be made to achieve better health. The basic physical assessment testing benefits all people whether they are athletic or not. Most likEnergyely, this testing benefits people who may be unaware of the consequences of having poor eating habits and little or no exercise which contribute to high blood pressure, weight gain, lack of muscular strength, and flexibility. People who either participate in some form of exercises or sports can benefit from the physical assessment because they can gain insight into improvements they can make in their healthy lifestyle.

For the underwater weighing, James Schlauderaff was the subject to be tested. This method computes percentage of body fat from body density. The water density helps to calculate water buoyancy when a person is submerged with the water density is 1.0 g/cc, fat density is 0.9 g/cc, and lean tissue is 1.1 g/cc. The underwater weighing benefits those are anyone, but it could also benefit those who are treated for anorexia and other eating disorders. Therefore, helps patient on weight not derived from a scale and may cause less concern for patients that need to be weighed.

Methods

Six people were tested for basic physical assessment. There were four different types of sub categories measured with different instruments. The cardiovascula...

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...ir out of his lungs both during a pre-test screening with a spirometer and during the test itself. Since air makes the body float, the inability to perform either these maneuvers could result in miscalculation of percent body fat. Overall, James gave his best during the hydrostatic weighing test he seems pretty good about it.

Statistical healthy norms applied and based upon each individual brings out what is considered appropriate and healthy for an individual. Based on statistical norms it may be irrelevant to every individual because everyone is different in genetics, body composition, shape, size, exercise, and well-being. Comparing an individual person to a huge population of other people is not accurate because people are very different in how they diet, exercise, and respond to things; thus, one person’s definition of “healthy” may be different another’s.