Therapy

A therapist is a wide-profile specialist who performs diagnostics, treatment, and prevention of nearly or organs and systems. 

Visit to a therapist includes:

• Gathering of anamnesis – the doctor carefully gets familiar with a patient’s complaints, the causes, period of duration of these complaints. Necessarily clarifies what was proceeding the occurrence of pathological symptoms, whether the patient has chronic or hereditary diseases.        
• Patient’s examination – a therapist studies skin and visible mucosal surfaces, and assesses the body constitution. Also assesses the existence of visible lesions, wounds, asymmetry, and other defects.   
• Palpation – during palpation, muscle tension and the presence or absence of pain are determined locally. The therapist checks the mobility and condition of some internal organs during deep abdominal palpation.  
• Percussion - a method through which the doctor examines positioning of various organs in the body (e.g., pleura, liver, spleen) and changes in them by the type of sound produced during percussion.
• Auscultation – using a stethoscope, the doctor listens to the sound of lungs, heart and intestines (The excess gas in the intestines, the degree of peristalsis, etc. are determined).
• Measuring blood pressure and pulse.

This primary data is important to develop a plan for further diagnostics and determine a probable diagnosis. 

• Prescribing laboratory instrumental diagnostic procedures

If the obtained diagnostic data enables to determine a diagnosis that falls in a therapist’s profile, then the therapist controls the treatment process until the patient is cured. The treatment plan is developed individually, according to the characteristics of a clinical case. If the examination result is beyond a therapist’s competence, then the patient is referred to a narrow specialization (endocrinologist, gynecologist, gastroenterologist, cardiologist, neurologist, oncologist, etc.) doctor.