Am I fit for the Amarnath Yatra/ Hajj pilgrimage beginning next week? Doctors, especially general practitioners, encounter such questions often in their daily practice. How can they evaluate such condition without getting into a delay of the radiological and pathological investigation? A comprehensive, simplest and easy to interpret diagnostic test called Six Minute Walking Test (6MWT) can help a doctor to achieve a diagnostic decision just within his clinic.
The original purpose of the 6MWT was to test exercise tolerance in chronic respiratory disease and heart failure. The test has been used as a performance-based measure of functional exercise capacity in older adults as well as children. It evaluates the global and integrated responses of all the systems involved during exercise, including the pulmonary and cardiovascular systems, systemic circulation, peripheral circulation, blood,…
