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Health checkup

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.

Waiting lounge on the 2F internal medicine floor
Asthma & allergy

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.

Neurologist recording eye movements, with a brain scan on the monitor
Brain health & memory

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.

Dizziness clinic doctor explaining with an inner-ear model
Dizziness

“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.

Rehabilitation physician consulting with a spine model
Pain & rehabilitation

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.

Gait and foot-pressure test station
Sports medicine

Month 2 to month 12 after ACL surgery: where ACL rehab in Seoul fits

ACL rehab in Seoul fits one stage of a longer recovery: bring your operation note and imaging, and a rehabilitation specialist at Kwangdong Hospital assesses your stage and sets a one-to-one plan.

IV therapy room
Immunity & anti-aging

What an immune checkup measures: inflammaging, NK cells, hs-CRP and the other words on your report

What an immune checkup measures is how your defenses work, not whether a disease is present: NK cell activity, T/B lymphocytes, hs-CRP and IL-6, nutrients, stress hormones and HRV, plus aging markers such as telomere length.

Korean medicine doctor taking a pulse reading
Korean medicine

Five things forum threads leave out about a Korean medicine clinic in Seoul

A Korean medicine clinic in Seoul that sits inside a hospital is more than acupuncture: at Kwangdong Hospital the exam can include blood tests, herbs are checked against your medicines, and some care is shared with neurology.