Did you expect more from your last check-up?
Decide on your personal priorities for assessment and prevention together with the doctor, from a comprehensive check-up programme in functional medicine. Instead of a standard package, we put the examinations together for you.
This way we also detect risk factors that go unnoticed in the usual tests. A passive screening (“Come back in two years”) becomes active prevention, with detailed recommendations for prevention, performance and better ageing. On request we add environmental medicine diagnostics, genetics and epigenetics.
Two kinds of check-up
- Standard check-up, conventional medicine: essentially, it serves to see whether there are any pathological findings or whether “everything is still fine”.
- Comprehensive SGK check-up, with or without Blood Tuning: for this we offer, among other things, ultrasound diagnostics, bioimpedance measurement, heart rate measurement, ergometry, spiroergometry and lactate testing.
Every SGK check-up includes
- a detailed conversation about your state of health
- a thorough physical examination
- detailed final consultations
- suggestions for treatment
Additionally, if needed
- Cardio check with ECG, cardiac ultrasound and exercise ECG
- Lung check
- Vascular check with ultrasound
- Neuro check with nerve conduction test and cerebral vessel check
- Skin check
- Gut check
- Metabolic check and obesity advice
- Body composition
- Dental check
What happens as a new patient
- 1First consultationWe discuss your health and your goals and order the appropriate tests. About 30 minutes.
- 2LaboratoryBlood sample and further analyses. Usually 15 minutes, up to 120 minutes depending on what has been ordered.
- 3Doctor’s appointmentAfter 1 to 2 weeks: examination, a cardiovascular exercise test if needed, discussion of the laboratory results and advice.
Individual variations are of course possible.
Costs
Small conventional check-ups are covered by compulsory health insurance. Larger check-ups start at about CHF 800 and, depending on your needs, can cost CHF 2,000 to 3,000 or more; we decide on the scope together at the first consultation. Assessments in functional medicine are partly covered, if at all, by supplementary insurance. Many companies also contribute to the health of their employees. Please ask your insurer or your employer.
What happens next?
After the check-up, we distinguish four situations:
We take a closer look at your circumstances, weigh up possible burdens and reduce them. If everything is in order, we repeat the check-up after a few years.
| Age 20–39 | every 10 years |
|---|---|
| Age 40–49 | every 5 years |
| Age 50–69 | every 2 years |
| From 70 | every 1 to 2 years |
This is rather unusual. Thanks to the wide range of analyses at the SGK and our partners, we can usually investigate further in a targeted way.
We explain what the findings mean and what can be done. You decide whether to take the measures, even though you may not necessarily feel better afterwards, since you had no symptoms beforehand.
Now the aim is to cure the illness by addressing its causes as far as possible. We explain the suitable procedures and carry them out with your consent.
Active prevention
If you want to plan ahead with particular care, there are now additional ways of preventing health problems. The aim is not primarily to add years to life, but to add life to the years.
The most important and least expensive preventive measures are nutrition, exercise and relaxation. Prevention can also be supported with vitamins and minerals, hormones, vascular chelation therapy or even with your own stem cells, which are obtained from fatty tissue and stored for later use.