The Importance of Preventive Medicine

How preventive medicine from your family medicine doctors in Trophy Club, TX, can help you stay healthy

Preventive medicine is designed to prevent illness and disease, so you stay healthy. Your family medicine doctor is an expert at preventive medicine.

Dr. David Yi, Dr. April Enard, Dr. Paula Lansford Seabaugh, and PA Carol Addy PAC at Trophy Club Family Medicine in Trophy Club, TX, provide comprehensive medical services, including preventive medical care, so you can stay healthy.

Conventional medicine tends to focus more on treating the symptoms after you get sick. Preventive medicine is proactive medicine, to treat you before you get sick, so you can stay healthy.

There are many reasons why preventive medicine is important. These are just a few:

Preventive medicine can help you manage your blood pressure, which can keep your heart healthy, prevent a heart attack, and prevent a stroke.

Preventive medicine can help you reduce your bad cholesterol, which can help prevent clogged arteries and heart disease.

Preventive medicine can help you maintain a healthy weight, which can prevent obesity-related diseases and joint problems.

Preventive medicine services are comprehensive and include:

  • Routine physical examinations, to monitor your overall health
  • Women’s physical examinations, to monitor a woman’s overall and reproductive health
  • Men’s physical examinations to monitor men’s health issues
  • Sports and school physicals to determine whether a student is healthy enough to play a sport
  • Recommended and required vaccinations to protect against flu, pneumonia, COVID, shingles and more
  • Lab work to check for underlying conditions or diseases like cancer, diabetes, or thyroid issues
  • Imaging studies to check for injuries like broken bones, torn tendons, and damaged ligaments
  • Prescribe medications to prevent or treat underlying conditions or diseases like high cholesterol, blood pressure, diabetes, and asthma
  • Nutritional and lifestyle counseling to help you achieve and maintain optimal health

To learn more about the importance of preventive medicine and how it can help you stay healthy, call Dr. David Yi, Dr. April Enard, Dr. Paula Lansford Seabaugh, and PA Carol Addy PAC at Trophy Club Family Medicine in Trophy Club, TX. You can reach them in the office by calling (817) 430-9111, so call today.

Contact Us

Trophy Club Family Medicine
945 Trophy Club Drive
Trophy Club, TX 76262
817-430-9111

Office Hours

Monday:

8:00 am-5:00 pm

Tuesday:

8:00 am-5:00 pm

Wednesday:

8:00 am-5:00 pm

Thursday:

8:00 am-5:00 pm

Friday:

8:00 am-5:00 pm

Saturday:

Closed

Sunday:

Closed