Sleeping With ASMR

Today we are very much more mainstream i.e. back to the core theme of this blog which has been to review medical videos on YouTube. Medical education establishment – tick. Medical examination the theme – tick. Person with quiet voice – tick.

This will perhaps compensate for some of the forays off into other areas that I have committed recently.

Shoulder Examination – KCL KUMEC

As we’ve seen with previous professional videos in the past this one has an associated set of notes which fills in some of the gaps in our knowledge.

In this case:

“Shoulder examination video produced by King’s College London – King’s Undergraduate Medical Education in the Community Physiotherapist: Laura Smith Patient: Donald Sze Filmed at The Royal College of General Practitioners.”

This is great. The first time in a while we have a video with no extraneous background noise. The only irritation (presumably because the video is for instructional purposes) is that the audio and video track has cuts in it as it dashes between the tests that are being performed. Instead of evolving slowly as a conversation, it cuts off abruptly once a specific test has been performed.

However, this video is good enough for the Procrastination Pen playlist I am thinking.

The channel is KCL Kumec. It has twenty-nine videos, 9.48K subscribers and just one playlist. A brief look at the playlist indicates it is not really suitable in terms of ASMR.

Here it is if you want to take a look:

(It does not have a title).

Habitually, I thin down the videos under review by checking an already-supplied playlist. A quick overview of the twenty-nine videos shows that the same “patient” is in a number of them.

However, only a subset of these videos feature the same physiotherapist. I think that a way to attempt to thin these down a bit is to choose only those in which Laura Smith appears.

It appears that a return here in the future might well be in order, to cover some more videos from this channel.

Knee Examination – KUMEC

The notes with the video are: “Knee Examination produced by King’s College London – King’s Undergraduate Medical Education in the Community. Physiotherapist: Laura Smith Patient: Donald Sze Filmed at The Royal College of General Practitioners.”

Laura is excellent in this, not quite Hollie Berry but still nicely relaxing to listen to.

As before, the video chops between steps of the examination and so there is no evolving conversation as such. For some reason this seems less forced in this one – i.e. the transitions do not appear to be as abrupt.

Elbow Examination – KUMEC

The notes state “Elbow examination video produced by King’s College London – King’s Undergraduate Medical Education in the Community. Physiotherapist: Laura Smith Patient: Donald Sze Filmed at The Royal College of General Practitioners.”

The more I listen, the more relaxing it feels. This seems to be quite an ASMR discovery and puts some others into the shade. If the remaining videos sustain this kind of consistency, I may have to look at the existing Procrastination Pen playlist to weed out those that are not this quality.

Hand Examination – KUMEC

The notes state “Hand examination produced by King’s College London – King’s Undergraduate Medical Education in the Community. Physiotherapist: Laura Smith Patient: Donald Sze Filmed at The Royal College of General Practitioners.”

The comments indicate that other ASMR fans have got here long before I did. Laura might even stand up to Vicki Scott in ASMR terms which is really saying something. Her manner seems caring, thoughtful, methodical. If only the video was allowed to run the course of the entire examination, rather than chopping between important elements.

However, the consistency of these in terms of relaxing effects has been marvellous (better even than we have been used to of late).

And that is it, just the four videos featuring both Laura and Donald, I hope you agree this was a great set in terms of ASMR

The KCL Kumec playlist on the Procrastination Pen is here:

The overall playlist of videos covered so far on the Procrastination Pen is here:

The videos weeded out because over time they are just not as good as the others is in this archive list:

I keep this in case subscribers to the Procrastination Pen have personal favourites that they want to hear.

The playlist of videos requiring age verification is here:

I can’t be bothered to stop my listening experience to log on, this interrupts the listening experience. You may not mind this in which case this list is for you.

I hope that you find the playlists restful and I hope you get plenty of sleep.

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Until next time.

Photo by Shona Macrae