Community · Notes from Kwangdong Hospital

How long does a health checkup in Seoul take? About four hours, or one night if a colonoscopy is included

How long does a health checkup in Seoul take? At Kwangdong Hospital, about four hours as a same-day visit, or one night and two days once bowel prep and sedated gastroscopy and colonoscopy are included.

My asthma test was normal, so why am I still coughing?

An asthma test can be normal while you are still coughing: spirometry captures one day, asthma varies over time, and a cough beyond three weeks can also come from the nose, reflux or allergy.

MoCA score of 24 out of 30: what a parent's memory test score means, and the other numbers on the report

A MoCA score of 24 out of 30 sits just below the 26 to 30 normal range and means the screen flagged something worth checking. It is not a dementia diagnosis; education, mood, sleep, medicines and language all move the score.

“It’s just stress”: what the usual answers miss about recurring dizziness causes

Recurring dizziness causes can sit in the inner ear, brain, neck, blood pressure or autonomic nerves, so one normal test rarely explains it. Finding the cause usually takes several tests read by more than one specialty.

Injections calm it, exercise rebuilds it: choosing non-surgical treatment for chronic back pain

Non-surgical treatment for chronic back pain usually starts with exercise-based rehabilitation, adding injections, regenerative or manual treatment for specific causes, depending on where the pain goes.