By Cynthia Grau/WJEZ News

Even though school hasn’t quite let out for the summer yet, parents are thinking about school and sports physicals for next school year, which the Livingston County Public Health Department is already offering.

Education and marketing director Erin Fogarty explains how those physicals work for students and that now is the time to do it before things get busy closer to the start of the school year.

“What people can expect whenever they come in for an exam is a recording of their height, weight, blood pressure, pulse, hemoglobin, as well as their BMI. We do a check of their heart, lungs, lymph nodes, abdomen, skin, ears, eyes, nose, throat and all of those areas. And then an evaluation of their vision, joints, muscles and spine. And then we do look at family medical history to see if there are any risks we can head off. The other wonderful thing is whenever they come out, they are there and we have immunizations readily available, so you can knock out school physicals and sports physicals at the same time you can knock out some of those immunizations,” Fogarty said.

For more information or to make an appointment, call 844-7174.