You check your bloodwork every year. You should also know whether your hips, shoulders, spine, and strength are holding up.
Most of the people we see in the Performance Lab are doing the right things. They walk, they lift, they travel, they still play tennis or golf or chase grandkids around. What they rarely have is an objective look at how their body actually moves under the load they ask of it. Bloodwork, scans, and medication response cover the inside. The Movement Physical covers the way you carry yourself through your day.
Lab work tells you a lot. It does not tell you whether your hips rotate, whether one shoulder gave up, whether one leg is quietly carrying the other, or whether your back is ready for the trip you've already booked.
Function decline is slow. It hides until something snaps. By the time someone notices, they've already lost months of training and started avoiding the activities they love. We measure the same axes every year so that decline shows up as a number on a page long before it shows up as a problem in your life.
Thirty minutes. Same tester every time. Same equipment, same order, same thresholds. That's how the numbers stay comparable year over year.
Hips, shoulders, spine, ankles. Side-by-side angles. Where the body has stopped asking for room it used to have.
Handheld dynamometry across the major muscle groups. The number on the weak side is the one that matters.
Squat, hinge, step, push, pull, rotate. How well the body organizes itself when asked to produce force.
Resting heart rate, recovery snapshot, and the load your body can absorb today. Not what you used to handle. What you handle now.
The whole point. We compare your numbers to your last set, not to a population average. You are the control group.
One clear training direction. One date on the calendar to come back and prove it worked.
Most concierge and longevity-focused practices already cover bloodwork, imaging, body composition, and medication response. The piece that rarely gets measured is musculoskeletal function. Joint motion. Side-to-side strength. Movement control. Training readiness.
With your written permission, we send your physician a one-page Function Snapshot. It's not a medical diagnosis and it's not a treatment plan. It's a measured profile they can use to round out the picture they already have.
One window. Northbrook lab. Same tester every time. Wear training clothes.
Joint motion, strength balance, movement quality, training readiness. No guessing. Numbers on a page.
We explain the main findings before you leave. Your Movement Physical Report comes after the visit. Optional physician snapshot, with your permission. Retest date on the calendar.
Dr. Damir Simunac, DC
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Email me when booking opens Temporary launch path while the EmailOctopus form is being wired. You'll also get Damir's Checkpoint every other week: one clinical insight, one movement worth trying, and the occasional pattern from the lab.