Community Fitness and Health Assessment Program
Concordia University offers a health, fitness, and performance assessment service to individuals in the River Forest and Chicago area. Faculty and staff utilize state-of-art laboratory equipment with the latest knowledge and research in exercise testing to help clients become healthier individuals or improved athletes.
The assessments offered by the Exercise & Sports Science Laboratory can be performed on individuals of all ages, fitness levels, athletic experience and musculoskeletal or functional ability.
Why Choose CUC?
The program will help you achieve your health and fitness goals, whether the objective is wellness or athletic competition.
The Exercise & Sport Science Laboratory offers state-of-the-art equipment in a safe environment. With over ten years of clinical laboratory experience, Professor and Clinical Laboratory Director, Karla Hanson and her staff conduct each test, and provide your results on the same day.
Under laboratory staff direction, students in Exercise Science have the opportunity to engage in hands-on experience and advanced education in the health sciences by allowing them to apply skills and training learned in the classroom in a real-world setting.
Tests Offered
FAQs
In accordance with HIPPA, all personal information is kept private, and will not be shared with anyone outside of the laboratory staff involved in your testing. All information is kept secure through our password protected system.
Payment is strictly fee for service, and no insurance is accepted.
As part of this service, your results will be immediately available to you. Following the test, the laboratory staff will review the test results with you. You may also be sent an electronic copy of the results if you choose.
All participants will be given an informed consent to read and sign. You will be given time to ask any questions prior to signing the document. Additionally, all participants will complete a simple medical history form, to ensure safety of testing.
We accept credit, debit and check, paid on our website via 4aGoodCause.
Providing Health Information and Guidance
The information from these tests can help you achieve your health and fitness goals, whether the objective is wellness or athletic competition, weight loss or weight gain, or achieving a healthier lifestyle.
Our staff, led by Professor Karla Hanson, a clinical exercise physiologist with 10+ years of experience in the clinical field, are knowledgeable on administering and interpreting these tests. Contact Professor Hanson or Abe Paz, sport science graduate assistant, for questions and scheduling.
