Stress Testing

Healthy Heart Checks -  Cardiac Stress Test

Heart attacks can happen without warning. Heart disease is a gradual process of atherosclerosis or hardening of the arteries.

Within the clinic you can have a heart check up with no out of pocket expenses as the stress test and ABI will be bulk billed.

Our stress tests are undertaken by a Cardiologist and Exercise Physiologist working together to monitor your presentation.

Risk Factors for Heart Attack include:                                                                  

• inactivity
• smoking
• chest pain
• diabetes
• overweight
• high cholesterol
• high blood pressure
• family history heart disease  

A stress test is a specific type of test that is used to measure the heart’s tolerance for exercise and detect various forms of heart disease. The most common form of exercise stress test combines some form of exercise with an electrocardiogram (ECG) to measure the heart’s activity both at rest and while working. This test is noninvasive, generally safe and painless.

A physician may recommend and refer for an exercise stress test for a number of reasons:

• To diagnose a heart-related cause of symptoms such as chest pain, shortness of breath or lightheadedness.
• To screen for coronary artery disease in some patients who do not have symptoms.
• To predict future risk of dangerous heart-related conditions, such as heart attack.

Call 1300 01 CARE (1300012273) to organise your bulk billed stress test!