Abstract
Holistic features in routine and other medical checkups were efficiently utilized in analyses carried out by our institution in the medical observation of employees at one local corporation between 1970-1973. Since 1974, a Comprehensive-Medical-Check-System (called the“Human-Dock-System”) made available such overall and holistic health checks to outpatients at our clinic.
Within such health testing, broad comprehensive observation is required and must cover factors as physical health, mental health, individual pathological patterns, methods of patients' responses, maladaptation, re-adaptation, life style related diseases, former treatment, prophylaxis, working conditions and, of course, stress and degrees of stress in all these situations. Also, coordination of such observations is important, and physicians, nurses, health counselors, and medical doctors in the personnel sections of companies considered had to cooperate.
Here, it is essential to have—preferably on the stage of the initial diagnosis—broad and objective standards to measure and adjust stress reactions in patients. Such standards afford a basis for effectfully managed stress-adaptation under therapeutical guidance, even with respect to the prevention of cancer and chronic hepatitis. This is indicated by our data. Positive effects may meanwhile arise where patients know such standards, acquaint themselves with their psycho-physical responses, and thereby acquire means to improve their condition.
Nishikaze and Furuya's method is known to utilize 17-KS-S as an indicator of repair-cum-recovery, 17-OHCS as reflecting wear and tear in the body. We consider that in order to observe psychosomatic stress reactions under the aspect of neural and adrenocortical functions, this method affords reliable and comprehensive data. It thereby provides an efficient tool in holistic health checks and for the self-adjustment of patients.
