Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing (CPET) in Atlanta, GA
Progressive Medical Center, in Atlanta, GA, is now offering the MET-TEST Cardiopulmonary Exercise Test (CPET)—a state-of-the-art diagnostic tool that uncovers how your heart, lungs, and muscles perform under stress. Identify hidden issues before symptoms escalate.
What is CPET?
Cutting-Edge Insights Into Your Body’s Performance
Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing (CPET) is the gold standard for evaluating how your body responds to exercise by measuring the performance of your heart, lungs, muscles, and cells in real time. This test offers precise insights into oxygen utilization, mitochondrial efficiency, and cardiorespiratory fitness—all of which are essential to your long-term health.
What makes CPET so valuable is its ability to uncover early warning signs of dysfunction long before traditional labs or imaging might detect a problems such as heart disease or metabolic disorders. By identifying these markers early, we’re able to intervene with personalized treatment plans that help you restore function, prevent disease, and optimize long-term health outcomes.
Why We Use It at Progressive Medical Center?
Prevent. Detect. Personalize
At Progressive Medical Center in Atlanta, GA, we believe that the key to lasting health lies in identifying dysfunction at its earliest stages—long before it progresses into a diagnosable disease. Our proactive approach focuses on uncovering subtle imbalances and physiological inefficiencies that often go unnoticed in standard medical evaluations. Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing (CPET) empowers us with the data needed to detect these early warning signs, so we can intervene with targeted, personalized therapies that support healing, improve function, and prevent future illness.
- Detect subtle dysfunction in cardiovascular or pulmonary function
- Identify mitochondrial issues that contribute to fatigue
- Measure metabolic efficiency and exercise tolerance
- Establish a data-driven baseline for your wellness journey
How are treatments performed?
Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing (CPET) is one of the most advanced tools available for identifying hidden imbalances in the body’s energy systems. At Progressive Medical Center, we use CPET to help patients uncover the root causes of symptoms like fatigue, shortness of breath, and exercise intolerance—especially when traditional diagnostic tests come back “normal.” This test is a game-changer for those who feel like something is off but haven’t yet received clear answers.
CPET is particularly beneficial for individuals suffering from chronic conditions such as fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS/ME), post-viral syndromes, long COVID, heart failure, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
These conditions often involve complex dysfunction in how the body utilizes oxygen and generates energy. With CPET, we can assess real-time data on your body’s response to physical activity and pinpoint specific limitations in your cardiovascular, pulmonary, and metabolic systems.
Athletes and fitness enthusiasts also turn to CPET to measure VO₂ max and anaerobic threshold—two key indicators of performance and endurance. Whether you’re training for a marathon or simply trying to improve your overall fitness, CPET provides personalized data that helps you train smarter, not harder. It’s also valuable for older adults who want to assess their functional capacity and reduce the risk of cardiac or respiratory complications during exercise.
Finally, CPET is ideal for patients undergoing rehabilitation, chronic illness recovery, or functional medical treatment plans who need objective data to track progress over time. Because it evaluates how the body performs under stress, it can serve as a powerful baseline test to measure improvements in stamina, lung function, and mitochondrial health. This makes it an excellent tool for both diagnosis and progress monitoring throughout a personalized care journey.
CPET is Ideal for Patients Who:
- Experience chronic fatigue, exercise intolerance, or unexplained shortness of breath
- Are recovering from long COVID, post-viral fatigue, or chronic infections
- Want to identify underlying causes of poor energy production and mitochondrial dysfunction
- Are looking for prescriptive exercise and prevention guidance from a professional
- Wish to optimize their fitness levels, VO₂ max, and athletic performance
- Need objective, real-time data to evaluate treatment outcomes or track recovery progress