Other treatments and examinations

Evoked potential examinations measure the functionality of the sensory tracts and the neural pathways in the peripheral and central nervous systems by measuring electrical responses to various external sensory stimuli. Sensory threshold examinations are used to study the sensory system…

Most babies settle in the womb head first by 35 weeks of pregnancy. Approximately 2.5 per cent of babies are still in breech presentation at the end of pregnancy. If the nurse at your maternity and child health clinic suspects that your baby is breech or in transverse lie (lying sideways)…

We treat patients over the age of 70. The most common reasons for treatment are severe depression or anxiety, bipolar disorder, psychotic disorder or severe psychiatric symptoms related to memory disorders and substance abuse issues.

Head and neck cancer refers to malignant tumours of the head and neck region excluding the eyes, brain and thyroid.

Heart tests are used to examine possible functional disturbances of the heart. The most common heart tests are electrocardiogram (ECG), echocardiogram, and 24-hour ambulatory ECG.

Hematology is the medical discipline that studies and treats illnesses of the blood. The suspicion of a possible blood illness arises often when there are changes in the blood counts in laboratory testing of a blood sample.

We serve patients and the next of kin in Tyks (Turku University Hospital) Main Hospital, Tyks Mäntymäki Hospital, Tyks Kaskenlinna Hospital, Karinakoti and some of the Turku and Kaarina elderly care wards. As pastoral counsellors we work for the holistic treatment of patients. You can…

The intestinal cancers include cancer of the colon and cancer of the rectum. These cancers have their origin in the glands of the inner surface of the intestine. They are the third most common cancers in Finland.

Cancer in the kidney (renal cancer, hypernephroma) causes blood to spill into in the urine which may be a first symptom. The cancer is visualized in imaging studies of the abdomen.

You will need to have a laboratory referral from the unit where your are being treated.