People don't always go to the doctor because their sick. The doctor will set up a regular checkup schedule that includes a physical exam and an assessment of your child’s social, mind or of mental states and processes, and nutritional development.
In the clinic or the pediatricians office this is what they do to check up on the children and young adults.
In the clinic or the pediatricians office this is what they do to check up on the children and young adults.
Infants, birth to 36 months:
- Length-for-age and Weight-for-age
- Head circumference-for-age and Weight-for-length
Children and adolescents, 2 to 20 years
- Stature-for-age and Weight-for-age
- BMI-for-age
Preschoolers, 2 to 5 years
- Weight-for-stature
For the physical examination this basically what the doctor would do . (The BOLD is the examinations that they will do for ever examination that you will go to. )
- Measuring your height and weight (which can be used to calculate your body mass index)
- Checking your blood pressure and pulse
- Examining your skin for moles or rashes
- Checking the lymph nodes ("glands") around your neck and under your arms
- Looking in your ears
- Checking your vision and looking in your eyes
- Checking your teeth, gums and throat
- Feeling your thyroid gland (at the base of your neck)
- Listening to the blood vessels in your neck
- Listening to your lungs
- A hearing test
- Listening to your heart for murmurs or irregular beats
- Feeling your abdomen for lumps, areas of tenderness or enlargement of internal organs
- Examining your joints
- Checking the alignment of the spine
- Checking your reflexes and sensation
- Assessing your memory and mood
- measure your height
- check your weight
- take your blood pressure
- listen to your heart and lungs
- feel your abdomen
- look in your ears, nose, and throat
- check your eyesight
- evaluate your child's posture, joints, strength, and flexibility
