Your Assessment
​We believe in a comprehensive and personalised approach to weight management. Your initial assessment is a crucial step in understanding your health needs and goals. This thorough evaluation goes beyond the typical weight management checks.
We undertake several assessments to comprehensively understand your current health status and risk of future disease. This helps us create a treatment plan that is safe, effective, and tailored specifically to you.
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We use all validated clinical assessment tools agreed to the highest international standards for high quality metabolic health care and weight management.
We measure several cardiometabolic health parameters, bone mineral density, muscle mass and strength using dynamometry, psychological wellbeing, sleep quality and other relevant clinical and patient-specific outcome measures as per the International Consortium for Health Outcomes Measures.
At Perth Weight Clinic, your health assessment includes:
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We use electrical impulses to measure your body composition, including fat, bone and muscle mass. This helps us track your fat loss accurately and monitor for bone and muscle mass loss which may occur with treatment.
2. Anthropometric Measurements
We assess fat mass and its distribution within the body. Not all fat is the same—visceral fat (around your organs) is linked to health risks. This ensures the treatment we recommend is targeted to achieve a reduction in visceral fat whilst preserving muscle and bone mass.
3. Blood Tests
We perform a range of cardiometabolic, nutritional and hormonal tests to check your general health and for obesity-related complications. This includes assessing for insulin resistance (pre-diabetes and diabetes), lipid abnormalities (including lipid subfractions), and several other cardio-kidney-metabolic health tests.
4. Imaging
We can arrange further investigations for body composition analysis (DEXA or MRI) and assessment for cardio-metabolic health conditions (e.g., echocardiography, liver elastography). We are linked to all major radiological, cardiology and respiratory centres across WA.
5. Psychology
As part of our holistic approach, we review your psychological health and eating behaviour to support positive changes that are personalised, sustainable and meaningful. Our clinical psychologist is also available to support you.
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6. Behaviour assessment
Understanding more about your approach to eating, sleep, activity and relaxation is key to personalising a relevant, achievable and meaningful treatment plan for weight loss that is sustainable long term. This is undertaken in a stigma-free and non-judgmental way to support changes in behaviour to optimise weight loss and health gain.
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7. Wearables
We advise on the appropriate use of wearable devices such as continuous glucose monitors (CGMs). CGMs may help to identify foods that impact negatively on glucose variability which can lead to weight gain (or difficulty losing weight) and increase the risk of developing insulin resistance.
We monitor your glucose readings remotely and advise on your glucose trends to support positive changes to eating behaviour. We collaborate with leading providers and can provide discounted access to monitors. ​​​​