Preventive Medicine

Preventive medicine helps you to avoid health problems ranging from seasonal flu to heart attacks. At offices in the Navy Hill and Williamsburg neighborhoods of Brooklyn, New York, Tru Medical Management’s board-certified physicians offer comprehensive preventive medicine services, including annual physicals, smoking cessation, and screening for cancer, diabetes, and high cholesterol. To learn how you could live a better life through preventive medicine, call your nearest Tru Medical Management office to request an in-person or telemedicine visit or schedule a consultation online today.

What is preventive medicine?

Preventive medicine aims to keep you healthy instead of waiting for you to get sick. It involves taking measures to protect yourself from preventable diseases and identifying health problems before they get too advanced.

Engaging with preventive medicine helps you avoid the pain, misery, inconvenience, and expense of ill health. You can stay fit and strong, lead a more enjoyable life, and live longer thanks to the preventive medicine services at Tru Medical Management.

What preventive medicine services are available?

Tru Medical Management offers numerous preventive medicine services, including:

Cancer screening

At Tru Medical Management, you can undergo screening procedures to look for early signs of conditions like colorectal, prostate, and cervical cancer. Mammograms (X-rays that detect breast cancer) are available through the practice’s provider partner.

Other screening procedures

In addition to screening for cancer, Tru Medical Management runs tests that identify problems like high cholesterol, hypertension (high blood pressure), and thyroid disease. The practice’s comprehensive diabetes screening can identify prediabetes (early rises in blood sugar levels), enabling you to avoid type 2 diabetes.

Annual physicals

Annual physicals are routine physician consultations where your provider checks your vital signs and health indicators, including heart rate, lung and heart sounds, breathing, reflexes, and blood pressure. In addition to annual checkups, Tru Medical Management offers specialized physicals such as well-woman and well-man exams.

Immunizations

Immunizations give your immune system harmless substances that enable it to create antibodies that destroy specific pathogens (bacteria and other disease-causing microorganisms). Immunizations protect you from many diseases, including flu and COVID-19.

What can I do to help prevent disease?

Key ways of engaging with preventive medicine include ensuring you attend routine exams and screenings and keeping your immunizations up to date.

Another vitally important way of preventing ill health is to improve your lifestyle. Many common diseases (including leading causes of untimely death) are due to or made worse by poor diet, excess body weight, insufficient exercise, unmanaged stress, and bad habits like smoking.

Tru Medical Management can help you deal with these problems, supporting you with expert preventive medicine programs such as smoking cessation and weight loss.

To learn more about benefiting from preventive medicine, call Tru Medical Management today or schedule a consultation online.