This week, for a change, I thought we’d look at a medical teaching video in the hope of finding some relaxing material. Actually, that’s no change at all as we have covered this channel and this institution in a previous blog post.
In that blog post I concluded that the sound quality really wasn’t all there. I limited the post to just five videos, concluding that a number of them were not going to make it to the Procrastination Pen playlist.
However, there was the matter of the remaining videos to review, so I thought I’d give the channel a second chance, in the hope that there is a diamond in the rough as it were.
As previously indicated the tutor is Justine Ward who desperately needs a better microphone and quieter surroundings to get the best sound on her videos. Sadly she has neither here.
The channel is Dominican College. The purpose of this set of videos is not completely clear. I do not think they were designed with audio quality in mind.
In which case I think I will limit myself to reviewing just five videos on this occasion as well.
September 22, 2019
A bit longer than the last (previous blog post) at four and three-quarter minutes.
It shares the same limitations as the others reviewed so far, in that the voice of the teaching professional seems to be at the end of a long tunnel.
One thing that does come across is how gentle she is with the “patient” in this. It is also the first time I have come across a video in which a person with restricted motion is reviewed (left shoulder).
Again, the video ends abruptly (this has become somewhat of a theme).
This appears to be a duplicate of the video called “C-spine and UE ROM screen 9/22/19”. We only need one in the playlist so I’ll drop this one.
It is interesting that the focus is on reimbursement based upon Insurance Companies. This is strange to a person in an NHS system that money payment for treatment is a contingent process, like stage payments on a mortgage. Health obviously having a very definite value in such a system.
It appears to be a duplicate of the one entitled “C-spine goniometry 9/22/19” we only need one in the playlist so I’ll drop this one.
September 22, 2019
Again, we see the extreme care taken in manipulating. With feedback felt about where rotation should cease. Any pressure on joints is applied with care.
We can probably rattle through these barring any surprises because they are consistent in terms of sound quality.
C-spine Goniometry 9/22/19
We covered this above as the second September 22, 2019 video.
The Dominican College playlist on the Procrastination Pen is here:
The Procrastination Pen playlist (which is no-doubt what you have all been reading this in order to locate) is found here:
I have been working through that playlist repeatedly and some of the videos that were members have now fallen from favour. If any of your favourites are in there you can find them here in the archive list:
Quite often the videos getting removed have no faults other than excessive background noise.
The playlist of items that are great for ASMR (but contain an age verification function), usually a great way to interrupt your listening in the middle of the night, is here:
I hope that you find the playlists restful and that you get a good night’s sleep.
Hope to see you again back here for the next blog article.
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Another week and onwards towards a longer playlist and another set of videos (from YouTube) to review.
Today we have another set from a student, presumably this was originally created as part of an assessment process.
As is typical for this type of channel, the last update was some time ago and now the channel is not maintained. We have already seen that some videos can be taken down and these could become the same, so my advice is “get ‘em while you can”.
The channel is Jordynlee21 and the updates are nine years ago (2015). There are four videos, which as you will see, have pretty much the same title but feature different “patients”.
There are no playlists available on the channel so, in no particular order, this is the first one.
Head to toe Ashley Brehmer- South University
The camera pans the room in the most disconcerting way. The initial verbal description is a bit drony, as if it is narrated by someone who is just going through the motions.
There is an ever-present background noise (probably air conditioning). This is a situation with which we are now well familiar.
As is usual, the channel for South University does not include medical examination videos.
I’m always fascinated by the terms used by those using a stethoscope such as “Intercostal Space”, this gives a good definition:
“2nd intercostal space (i.e., the space between the second and third ribs).
3rd intercostal space (i.e., the space between the third and fourth ribs).
4th intercostal space (i.e., the space between the fourth and fifth ribs).
5th intercostal space (i.e. the space between the fifth and sixth ribs).”
At intervals the presentation does settle down to be more gentle and is more the kind of video that we’re looking for (or “hearing for” if that could be a term).
In this case the medical professional is Ashley, I am not clear who Jordyn Lee (the name of the channel) is. The channel has been around since 2009 so considerably before the video.
Callie Donnay head to toe- South University
Again, with the maniacal whirling of the camera about the room, presumably to demonstrate that there are no prompts in the room for the student. However, I would have thought it straightforward to pan the room initially and then introduce material subsequently, but maybe I’m over thinking this.
The medical professional is Callie Donnay, again, the video is posted nine years ago. The air conditioning noise remains ever present. The “patient” here is the medical professional from the previous video i.e. Ashley Brehmer.
Sensibly there are no comments permitted; we’ve seen negative comments against such videos before.
Eventually the video settles down and gets reasonably quiet. I wonder if initial nerves in such videos is the reason that they often set off loud and settle down later.
There is the occasional clatter as equipment is moved around. This is distracting but not massively off-putting.
Alana Haas head to toe- South University
Alana Haas is the medical professional. Again, the camera pans the room. The “patient” confirms it is actually a hospital and not a domestic setting as we have often seen before. The patient states her name as Jordyn Hutchinson. The surname isn’t Lee – so perhaps she is not the owner of the channel. The patient states the date as 2013 so the video is posted somewhat later than that (which seems a bit odd if it is part of an assessment process).
Like the previous videos, the voice isn’t spot on for ASMR and the background noise is always present. However, there are periods of calm. Again, there are clattering noises which are only marginally distracting.
Jordyn Hutchinson head to toe- South University
Here, Jordyn becomes the medical professional. I’m not sure how common the spelling Jordyn is seen (I’m more used to Jordan). However, it is conceivable that Jordyn married and took the name Lee and hence the channel belongs to the self-same Jordyn.
I’m not sure how that could be verified as the videos lack any notes.
As before the camera sweeps the room and the medical professional starts off loud, so far, so familiar.
The patient is Alana Haas who appears in the previous video.
It settles down and is moderately quiet. I do often hope for another Hollie Berry but I think these videos are adequate for getting to sleep.
They’re going into the playlist and I’ll rely on the review process to sweep them into the archive list if they cease to be appealing.
The Jordyn Lee playlist on the Procrastination Pen is here:
The Procrastination Pen playlist (which is no-doubt what you have all been reading this in order to locate) is found here:
I have been working through that playlist repeatedly and some of the videos that were members have now fallen from favour. If any of your favourites are in there you can find them here in the archive list:
Quite often the videos getting removed have no faults other than unwelcome loud equipment noises.
The playlist of items that are great for ASMR (but contain an age verification function), usually a great way to interrupt your listening in the middle of the night, is here:
I hope that you find the playlists restful and that you get a good night’s sleep.
Hope to see you again back here for the next blog article.
If you liked this blog item why not subscribe to this blog.
Recently I have noticed that the videos available in The Procrastination Pen playlist have started to reduce. I haven’t commenced any new weeding activity so the videos have not been jettisoned into the Procrastination Pen archive playlist. Nonetheless the number of videos is going down.
Looking at the Procrastination Pen playlist, I find that ten unavailable videos are hidden at the current moment. It is tempting to conclude that because an extra spotlight has been shone on them by The Procrastination Pen blog, people have rushed to hide them from view. More realistically, I think this is the natural process of attrition. Two of the videos are now showing as marked private and eight have been deleted.
It would appear there is a race on to getting the material listed on this blog before the featured video disappears.
It would be great to create an archive of ASMR videos so that they would be permanently available. However, I am no legal expert and I suspect that there maybe a whole argument about original ownership of videos, permissions, fees and so on. The upshot is that unless the blog keeps on rolling forwards, the playlist is going to continue to diminish in terms of the number of videos it contains.
It also means that you need to get listening to the featured videos soon after I publish the blog article, as videos are obviously being removed and you may be left with a small subset of those featured.
Another undesirable outcome is that some of the blog items are going to have blank spaces where videos used to be. I can’t see how to avoid that, other than to keep deleting old blog items. That may, ultimately, be the approach that I have to take.
I’ll keep rolling forwards with articles, unless it becomes obvious that simply by documenting videos in this blog causes the videos to be removed. In which case, the blog will have become a Jonah of ASMR and I will desist with it. (However, given the statistics on this blog I think that is unlikely and extremely unlucky if it turns out to be the case.)
And so, to today’s video:
The Full Neurological Examination
This begins with the kind of funky music that we have become used to. How much nicer it is when we find a video that does not employ music. This one is narrated and the narrator has a good voice. Immediately it seems that we are in safe hands.
Definition:
Romberg’s test – a test of balance involving a person standing with feet together and eyes closed.
The voice of the medical professional, which we hear briefly at intervals, is also a good voice and better still there is little background noise.
Just examining the comments, reveals that a number of other listeners have discovered its relaxing effects.
The channel is UCL Clinical Skills which as at today’s date includes thirty-nine videos. That is quite a few to document in one blog post (and I’m sure that you’re in a hurry to get to the Procrastination Pen playlist).
There are no playlists on this channel, so the habitual mechanism of thinning down the number of videos to a size that can be readily dealt with in one post by focusing on a playlist on the channel is not going to work.
The backup method is to look for videos where the same medical professional is involved or the same patient.
In this case, there is more than one video involving the same patient. I’ll focus on just those videos this time.
Abdominal examination (basic for Y1 & Y2 students).
There is more funky start up music (oh dear) and a different narrator. The sound quality is not so great but no less relaxing. There is now evidence of background noise on some of the narration tracks.
There is also a variability in volume which is undesirable when listening and trying to get to sleep.
However, it is still a good one to include in The Procrastination Pen playlist, I think.
Neurological sensory examination of the lower limb (basic for Y1 & 2 students).
Here we have the same narrator as in the last video and the same start up music. It would be great to edit that startup music out.
The volume of the narrator seems to be lower which will make inter-video volume an issue if you are listening to the playlist. The background noise in the examination parts of the video seems a bit higher. There are hardly any comments, so it is possible that this is not getting as much ASMR listening time as the previous videos (let’s hope The Procrastination Pen can change that).
Neurological motor examination of the lower limbs (basic for Year 1 & 2 students).
The self-same intro and narrator. The narrator used in the first video (who had a better voice) has obviously packed his bags and headed for the beach which is a shame for us but probably great for him.
An introduction to examining the cardiovascular system; Y1 & Y2
We’re now well used to the start-up music. The narration sound quality is not that amazing on this video. It sounds like the narrator is at some distance from the microphone (or the microphone hails from 1958).
An Introduction to the Abdominal Examination – Y1 and Y2
We are ringing the changes with the narrator here although not with the introductory music. It would be delightful if that music would just go for a walk somewhere rather than play at the start of a relaxing video. The narrator’s voice is really too deep in this video to be properly relaxing and comes as a bit of a shock after what has gone before.
However, it is not sufficiently off-putting to deny it membership of the Procrastination Pen playlist. (Although it may be weeded out in the future).
Fortunately, the delivery is well paced and spaced. Which soon allows relaxation to return, although this isn’t a top ASMR candidate by any means.
We’re back to the peppy music. This time the narrator sets off as if she has to speak to an auditorium, loud and a bit clipped. Perhaps that auditorium is full of misbehaving children.
It is not a relaxing presentation.
Although we have the same patient it is not as chilled as previous videos in this set. I do not think that it can sneak into The Procrastination Pen playlist.
This set of videos must be excellent for instruction, I’ve seen a few medical examination videos now but I am still learning a great deal by watching. However, that is not the purpose of this set of blog posts.
Abdominal Examination
We’re back to the deep voice we heard in “An Introduction to the Abdominal Examination – Y1 and Y2” above. It isn’t marvellous ASMR-wise however not enough to discount it from the Procrastination Pen playlist. It might be dropped on future review though.
GALS Screen (Gait Arms Legs Spine) examination – real time
There is no narration on this one which is actually rather refreshing. The medical professional is relatively quiet. In fact, this is a great video for ASMR purposes. His tone is good and his approach methodical, everything that we have been looking for thus far.
Some of the videos do repeat some of the material from previous videos in the same series. I am assuming that this will not be too off-putting of you follow my advice to play the playlist on shuffle so that you do not just get them one after the other.
That’s it for now.
However, the channel has been good for us so I intend to return here to look at some of the other videos it contains.
The UCL Clinical Skills playlist on The Procrastination Pen is here:
The overall playlist of videos covered so far on the Procrastination Pen is here:
The archive playlist of videos that were in the above playlist but found after repeated review not to make the grade, is here:
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 in which case this list is for you.
I hope that you find the playlists restful and I hope you get plenty of sleep.
If you liked this blog article why not follow this blog.
The first thing that strikes me about today’s video is the very quiet start. What a change to some of the canned music that usual precedes videos on YouTube. There is also the absence of oppressive air conditioning noises that plague so many of these.
The patient “Natalie” (possibly misspelled) announces that she was born 10/15/98 and the medical professional states “so you’re 20”. 10/15/98 is 15/10/1998 (UK Format i.e. October). We can assume that this is filmed 2018 which given it was posted four years ago seems to indicate that it was filmed and posted around the same time.
Head to Toe Health Assessment
The patient states that she attends Colby Sawyer college https://colby-sawyer.edu/ which is a school of nursing and so potentially where this video was filmed. Colby Sawyer, as expected, has its own YouTube channel with one hundred and thirty-eight videos, four hundred and one subscribers and three playlists. A brief check seems to indicate that sporting videos are quite important on this channel but, probably unsurprisingly, these turn out not to be videos suitable for a blog about ASMR.
For today’s video the channel is Marissa Nance and consists of this one video and no playlists.
I’ll make the assumption that this was for an assessment in that year and I’ll assume the medical professional here was Marissa.
It remains wonderfully calm and, judging by the comments, I am not the only one to think so. Many ASMR fans have checked this one out previously. Although sadly, the negative not to say nasty, comments are here as we have seen in the past.
This one is distinguished in that both Natalie and Marissa have calm voices, that is a rare (if not unique so far) find.
It seems over rather too soon, given there are no alarming noises throughout the entire video (something we have not always been able to say).
So that’s it, just the one for you today but I am certain more will be coming very soon. The overall playlist of videos covered so far on the Procrastination Pen is here:
(and now it includes the Marissa video).
The archive playlist of videos that were in the above playlist but found after repeated review not to make the grade, is here:
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.
If you liked this blog article why not follow this blog.
Following on from the previous blog post, there were a number of videos that I had not had the time to review in that article. I did promise (ish) that we might revisit the videos to see if any might be potential ASMR-generating or at the least restful and possibly sleep-inducing.
There remains a huge great list of videos still to review and so one extra post on this subject just isn’t going to cover it. Since then, I’ve also found that shorter posts seem to be more appreciated than longer ones such that it isn’t a fantastic idea to just plough on and subject you to page after page of video review.
In any case I suspect the driver for attending this blog at all is the output, which in this case is the playlist. In which case, stroll straight to the end where you will find it in all its splendidness.
So we return to ASMR Exams (the channel on YouTube).
By my back-of-the-envelope calculations, I think we had twenty videos which were neither reviewed nor added to any playlist (assuming they were any good ASMR-wise). I think five will do for this post, assuming that we find even one in those five worthy of addition to The Procrastination Pen playlist.
Let’s dive straight in:
Abdomen Exam (ASMR)
The professional’s voice is a little high-pitched to be truly restful. But at least it is quiet. A number of commentators dismiss this one as about as ASMR-y (potential official term) as a smack in the face with a wet cloth. However, the fact that the professional is a bit dithery does not (to me) discount this video. Although I suspect that the professional here may have struggled with whichever assessment, they were involved in.
At just shy of twenty-six minutes this is thorough indeed (although not excessively long in terms of videos that we have already seen on the blog).
The embroidery near to the left shoulder on the uniform of the medical professional states that the person is Maureen Bolmgren RN. In which case, given this is a quite tentative medical assessment this could have been when Maureen attended Middle Georgia State University. There is a channel for Middle Georgia State University with One Hundred and Four videos at the time I’m looking at it. This might be worthy of a future review.
Given a cuckoo clock kicks in at 18:24, I would guess that the examination is occurring in a domestic setting and so this is also indicative of a student assessment rather than a professional one. Incidentally that cuckoo clock is not at all restful. However, I will give the video the benefit of the doubt for the moment. It may get weeded out to the Procrastination Pen Archive at some future point.
If you search YouTube for Maureen Bolmgren you find this:
on a channel called MGA Nursing. This channel has forty-three videos and seems worthy of a future review.
Physical Assessment (ASMR)
Marina Bolshinsky introduces herself as the medical professional at the beginning.
Marina has a channel as well but it does not contain this video. The patient is Amber Rosenthal who it turns out is also a medical professional.
So this could well be an assessment video of the kind that we have seen before.
At 38:39 the video is a tad long and for me a tad loud. Other commentators have reflected the same.
We know the president is Barack Obama so it was filmed between 2009 and 2017. It appears that Amber and Marina would have been at Long Island University doing a Master’s degree at that time. Long Island University also has a channel which might be worthy of a future review.
This video also gets a bit dithery at intervals also a bit wordy with lots of nervous over-talking.
All told, this is not a great ASMR video and I won’t be adding it to The Procrastination Pen playlist.
Physical Assessment (ASMR)
There’s a helpful intro which states “Physical Assessment Head to Toe Examination Jamee Boutilier”. The “patient” is introduced as Jana. The university is also introduced but I can’t catch it. However, the shoulder badge reveals it to be Cape Breton University. which as we expect also has a YouTube channel (I might even review it at some point).
The video is chopped up into sections which when half asleep I doubt you will notice.
In fact, it isn’t startling in terms of ASMR but still worthy of The Procrastination Pen playlist I think. Future weeding might dispatch it, we’ll see how it settles in.
Physical Assessment (ASMR)
The health professional is Amy and the “patient” Tara (I think). They are in Missouri and it looks like a standard assessment video of the type we have covered before.
They have a YouTube channel (as you would expect) with three hundred and ninety-six videos at the time I am looking at it.
Physical Assessment (ASMR)
Reading the comments on YouTube regularly as I do, I get the feeling that some people add one because they feel they have to, they don’t contribute anything worthwhile.
The medical professional is Kelly Lomack (I’m guessing the spelling again). She kindly tells us that she is a paediatric nurse at the University of Texas El Paso. The patient is Regan.
As expected UTEP has its own channel, Seven Hundred and Sixteen videos as at the time I’m looking at it – it’s a possible for a future review.
Kelly also has her own channel which may also be suitable for a future review.
It is considerably quieter than the previous one, thankfully. The patient appears to be as delighted at the activity as if she had a sack of coal for Christmas rather than the Ferrari she’d been dreaming of.
Right up to the point that she has to stand on one leg with her eyes closed, whereupon she loses balance. I have never seen this test before and it looks a tough one. At least it raised smiles all round.
This one belongs in the Procrastination Pen playlist.
In writing this it is all too easy to assume that you have made the journey thus far with me and have some idea what this blog is for. However, it is to be hoped that people are meandering into the blog, from some search engine or other, all the time. If you have done that, this article may be your point of entry.
If so welcome.
I hope that those who have been reading (and subscribing) for a period of time will have patience whilst I tell you what you’re looking at.
The purpose is to generate a playlist – simply that. A great long playlist of videos from YouTube. Videos which, after careful listening and review have been found good for ASMR (or at the very least to be restful and relaxing, sufficient to nestle a person off to sleep when they have a stressful day to come and desperately need the rest).
The writing is actually the review process and I assume that a lot of people will just scroll to the end of the article and pick up the playlist.
Some people may take an interest in the review and take a moment to read and reflect on it or to vehemently disagree and to leave comments.
At intervals I will further edit the playlist to try to ensure that only the more restful videos are included.
This time we are starting with a video on a much more official sounding channel than some of our recent dalliances have been. No professional ASMR curation here.
The Exam for Shoulder Pain – Stanford Medicine 25
A rather nice piece of introductory music this time, although what it will sound like once you’ve heard it a few dozen times in the dead of night and you’re tired, irritable and have an important meeting in the morning, I’m afraid I can’t predict.
The medical professional this time is properly announced in the video Dr. Brinda Christopher Sports Medicine Physician FFSEM MRCP BSc MBBS. A rather dazzling array of qualifications there. The patient isn’t introduced.
But how does her voice sound and is the video very relaxing is what we have come to find out (well I have and I assume you have too as you’re reading this).
Certainly, Brinda has a very quiet voice, sufficiently quiet that the background aircon is quite apparent in this video.
The comments are quite enlightening with some comments from people seeking instruction for exams and some from those coming to this channel for ASMR videos. (I am not the first to find this video for ASMR purposes).
Although it is quiet it isn’t tops for ASMR with me. It is worthy of a review though and probably worthy of the Procrastination Pen playlist. (It might fall victim to a subsequent weeding, we’ll see).
The channel is Stanford Medicine 25. There are two hundred and forty-four subscribers at the time I’m looking at it. There are eighty-five videos as at today’s date and thirteen playlists. This video occurs in a playlist called Stanford Medicine 25: Musculoskeletal Exam.
This playlist consists of eight videos of which the above one is the very last in the set. Dr Christopher only features in three (of which the above is one).
The other two featuring Dr Christopher are:
The Exam for Knee Pain – Stanford Medicine 25
As usual with institutional videos (see the ones from Warwick) these are of a brand i.e. the same introductory images and the same image bottom right-hand side. (This last presumably in an attempt to preserve copyright of the entire video).
You might be intrigued (as I was) by the term crepitus, which is a noise coming from the joints on movement.
I’m not sure what the “patient” is called here, I thought that Brinda thanked “Chad” but it might just be my ears.
The last video with Dr Christopher in this playlist is:
The Exam for Ankle & Foot Pain – Stanford Medicine 25
In this we establish that the patient here is “Chad” the same patient in all three videos covered in this article. From the accent I would guess Chad is an American person. That’s in keeping with the institution location but is in quite a contrast to the more English accent of Dr Christopher.
These three videos obviously belong together, the same medical professional, the same “patient” the other five in the set (contained in the Musculoskeletal Exam playlist) less so.
Therefore, I think I’ll call this article at an end here and resolve to follow on with the rest of that playlist (and the channel) in future blog items.
The Stanford Medicine playlist on The Procrastination Pen is here:
The overall playlist of items covered so far on The Procrastination Pen is here:
The archive playlist of videos that were in the above playlist but found after lengthy review not to make the grade, is here:
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 dislike these as they expect me to login to verify my age. This interrupts the listening experience in my view. You may be happy with this interruption in which case this list is for you.
I hope that you find the playlists restful and I hope you get plenty of sleep.
If you liked this blog article why not follow this blog.
We are back to fairly safe ground this time. Firstly, this video is not found in a channel dedicated to ASMR (this blog focuses on unintentional ASMR videos for review material). Secondly, we are back to a Cranial Nerve exam which has featuredbefore.
Neuro PACES is the channel and it is fairly easy to cover as it contains in total five videos none of which is longer than ten minutes (in fact all are quite a bit shorter than that).
The Cranial Nerve Examination is this one:
Cranial Nerve Examination Example
A nice calm start but progress through the video does seem to be quite hurried. Dr Michael is the medical professional, Mr Foot is the “patient”
I would guess that in order to get the entire exam completed within five minutes Dr Michael really needs to be motoring along.
The video is quite a bit different to the Vicki Scott one in this respect.
As the video progresses, if anything, it gets even quieter but the pace never seems to slow down much. To me that is not too distracting and it is a good video for the Procrastination Pen playlist I think.
The patient here states that the sensation in his face is unequal. This is the first time we have come across this in any of the videos covered so far. Surprisingly there is no mechanism here for noting that concern, that seems unusual. In addition, the medical professional here does not echo back the concern. Reflecting the concern has been more typical in the videos we have covered so far.
A number of the videos seem to have been set up specifically for the neuropaces course organised by:
Professor Benedict Michael, Professor in Neuroscience, MRC Clinician Scientist and Honorary Consultant Neurologist
Professor Tom Solomon, Chair of Neurological Science and Honorary Consultant Neurologist
Dr Viraj Bharambe, Neurology Consultant
Dr Rosie Heartshorne, Neurology Registrar
I’ll make a guess that Dr Michael and Professor Michael are the same person.
Investigating the rest of the Neuro PACES channel we find that there are no playlists. Without a playlist order to guide the sequence of videos to review let’s begin with those videos dedicated to medical examination:
Lower Limb Examination Example
This features Dr Michael again, this time with Mr Jamieson. Again, this is a very gentle presentation. This one is pretty nigh ideal for our purposes and is a definite candidate for the Procrastination Pen playlist.
The patient here seems to be really struggling, the first time I’ve seen this featured in a medical examination video. The videos reviewed to date have always featured healthy people. I’m guessing these are usually student volunteers. This is quite a good vindication of what the process is supposed to be for i.e., verifying an unwell person’s condition.
For our purposes though it is a good ASMR candidate and like the previous one merely five minutes long. I’d say Dr Michael is as good here ASMR-wise as Dr James Gill which is quite a statement to make.
Neurology Lower Limb Examination for MRCP PACES. NeuroPACES.mov
The patient isn’t introduced in this video and Dr Michael starts off in much more robust fashion than in the previous two videos, (it’s quite a bit louder, as if he is trying to enunciate for a distant audience). There is a consistent background hubbub as if it is being filmed in a public area.
However, it still has its quiet and attentive moments which brings it back into a candidate for the Procrastination Pen playlist for me. It is still not quite as good as Shane Brun though.
In common with the other videos in this article it really motors though and is all over in five minutes. Overall therefore this one is not a great Procrastination Pen playlist candidate.
The Solomon System- NeuroPACES
This time the medical professional is flagged at the beginning Professor Tom Solomon PhD. FRCP of the Walton Neuro Centre NHS Foundation Trust & University of Liverpool
The “patient” is quite quickly introduced as Simon.
This is a longer video at eight minutes fifty seconds (though that is still not long in terms of the many videos we’ve reviewed in the past).
Professor Solomon has not got quite such a calm voice as Dr Michael sadly. I think again the problem is that he is presenting to a wider audience so his voice is louder. But at least there isn’t the background hubbub in this video.
There is quite a good description as to why some of the tests are actually performed and how to do these tests in the minimal time.
I’m not going to add this one to the Procrastination Pen playlist though.
NeuroPACES: The Walton Centre Neurology MRCP PACES Course
Another calm start, however it is just an intro video to the neuro PACES course. We get promotional material including funky music. This is not the kind of thing you want when you’re attempting to doze off.
This one is not going into the Procrastination Pen playlist.
The NeuroPaces playlist on the Procrastination Pen channel is here:
The overall Procrastination Pen Checklist (featuring all videos covered in the blog so far) is here:
The archive playlist of videos that were in the above playlist but found after lengthy review not to make the grade, is here:
I keep this in case people have personal favourites that they want to hear.
The playlist of videos requiring age verification is here:
I dislike these as they require me to stop listening and login to verify my age. You may find that you have more patience than I do in which case this list is for you.
I hope that you find the playlists restful and I hope you get plenty of relaxation as a result.
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As before, I should provide a brief introduction for those who do not know anything about:
a) this blog
b) this subject.
I’ve written on this before and it might be worthwhile reviewing that post for details.
In brief though, this section of the blog involves reviewing ASMR videos, or indeed any video that could be relaxing enough that when you are desperate for sleep it might encourage you to get some.
The result is a playlist of such videos and the opportunity to feedback as to whether my choices were appropriate that week.
The YouTube Channel this time does not have many subscribers two hundred and seventy subscribers in fact, so it is almost an unknown channel. Is this an ASMR find? Possibly…
The video is:
Head to Toe
This has a reasonably high level of background noise, possibly an open space perhaps (although the part we get to see is enclosed by curtains). The nurse is Keisha whose channel this is (more of that in a moment). The “patient” does announce her name which I think is “Mallory Myers” – that looks wrong to me but it is what it sounds like.
The comments as usual are a bit off the wall, even brutal, but fortunately if you came for the sleep then you will not be reading those (or even watching the video). It is all about the sound.
The video has the hallmarks of one of those we’ve seen previously i.e. created as part of an assessment process. For example this one includes the fake washing of hands and the insistence on drawing curtains for privacy that are already drawn.
I’ve concluded that somewhere there is a checklist that student assessment videos are unthinkingly adhering to.
These videos have a feeling of being “busy” i.e. trying to cram everything in that the assessor wants to see. This includes a number of technical terms I imagine very few patients would be bothered to hear about.
There’s also a long period of more-or-less nothing at the end when Keisha is doing the paperwork, presumably this is again a requirement.
The examination is lovely and calm, the background noise quickly stops being distracting. There are moments of shared humour and there seems to be reasonable rapport. This is a good Procrastination Pen playlist candidate.
It may have been recorded at Valdosta State University – the nurse’s shoulder badge at one stage appears to indicate this location. This university of course has a YouTube channel, with three hundred and four videos as at today’s date but it does not include any of those listed on Keisha’s channel.
There are seven videos as at today’s date with the above one being the most obvious candidate for ASMR. There are no playlists. However, with only seven videos we can probably take the time to review them all. (Well I can, and you can scroll to the end to listen to the playlist).
There are no videos posted more recently than eight years ago presumably that is how long ago Keisha was a student.
NG Tube
One thing that we can be absolutely clear about here is that there will be zero patient interaction. The patient appears to be plastic.
There is background noise, more insistence on fake privacy and cleanliness measures.
It is quite surreal watching the one-sided interactions in this video.
The notes state it is VSU college of nursing which seems to confirm my earlier guess about the location.
Nonetheless Keisha retains the quiet voice of the previous video and the procedures appear calm and measured. Even if it is apparent that a plastic model cannot actually swallow a tube.
There’s also an amusing point where the person videoing films their own fingers.
This video is a bit borderline. I’ll add it to the Procrastination Pen playlist but it may fall victim to a future weeding process.
The background noise seems worse because Keisha seems very quiet on this. The microphone is presumably not fully up to the task.
The “patient” has no legs which is almost as distracting as people talking and laughing in the background. The patient is plastic, which is a bit of a relief given the subject area. (I’d probably get some kind of YouTube content warning otherwise).
The camera-holding person is a bit of a fidget but given we’re here to listen (and to sleep) that is not such a concern. The sound isn’t amazing but it is unlikely to cause you to wake up in a hurry at 3am (unlike some YouTube adverts I can mention). Therefore, on-balance I think we can include it in the Procrastination Pen playlist (with the emphasis on potential future weeding activity).
Insulin Mixing
This also suffers from low volume. However, I am not so clear this will matter late at night when, necessarily, the volume will be way down in any case. (To ensure that you are not woken by the very playlist you were using to fall asleep in the first place). There is no patient in this video so it does not really qualify as an exam as such.
Keisha seems to be admirably measured in approach. I’m sure there must be classes on Zen meditation or something similar happening in the background to generate so many medical trainees this calm.
I’ll put this one in the Procrastination Pen playlist (even if only temporarily).
Wound Care
The one-sided conversation is nearly as surreal as the virtual door which you can neither knock upon nor close to “provide privacy”. The sound is slightly better apart from the traffic noise which makes itself felt. Once again this includes a plastic “patient”. At least he/she isn’t loud.
The snapping gloves noises are a bit of a wake-up though.
At nearly thirteen minutes it is amazingly long for a one-way interaction but I suppose the great thing about it is that it is quiet. Another video that’s on the Procrastination Pen playlist (possibly pending a future cull).
IM and SQ injections
I would guess this features two student nurses, our favourite, Keisha, and what sounds like “Sky Voss” but probably isn’t. This is filmed in a public area with minimal screening. So far so normal student assessment video.
At just over seven minutes it doesn’t hang around. As injections are not my favourite thing I’ll be watching from behind the sofa.
There is fake privacy and cleanliness again. There is also quite a lot of technical terminology, (as we saw previously). I’m presuming no standard patient would comprehend, let alone request this.
Fracturing the ampule was a bit of a shock (it is loud) but not as bad as the gloves snapping in the previous video. I’ll feature this video on the Procrastination Pen playlist for now.
I’ll schedule a playlist review shortly and remove any that no longer seem up to the desired quality.
IV administration
This is positively whacky; on this occasion the “patient” is a plastic arm.
The sound quality starts bad and seems to get a lot worse. It is like someone is trying to record the video with the microphone actually inside their pocket. There is almost no reception of what Keisha is saying. The presentation could be excellent but sadly it can’t be heard.
Hence this one needs to be rejected from the Procrastination Pen playlist.
The overall playlist of every video that made the grade after a review on this blog is here:
The archive playlist of videos that were in the above playlist but found after lengthy review not to make the grade, is here:
I keep this in case people have personal favourites that they want to hear.
The playlist of videos requiring age verification is here:
I dislike these as they require me to stop and login to verify my age. You may find that you have more patience than I do and so are prepared to give it a listen.
I hope that you find the playlists restful and I hope you get plenty of sleep as a result.
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There are twenty-two playlists in this channel some of which are extremely large. (The “Merck Manual Consumer Version” contains ninety videos for example. If I attempted to cover all of those it would not be not so much a blog post as a book on ASMR).
Since my last blog post they have changed elements of the Merck Manuals channel to state that it is not available outside the United States.
I hope it wasn’t something that I said.
If like me you’re not in the United States I am afraid that you are left with whatever remaining crumbs there are in terms of videos that are still available.
Contains seven videos which are still visible outside of the US. (Who knows how long you’ll be able to see even these. I suggest you go listen to them before it is too late).
How to do the Mental Status Exam | Merck Manual Professional Version
This is another video with funky start up music. I mean, really, don’t they know I’m trying to sleep?
The narrator here is way too loud sadly. Fortunately, that doesn’t last very long. The “patient” states that she is in Philadelphia in the Einstein Medical Centre. It’s not your standard ASMR stuff in that it is a little bit loud even in the medical exam portion.
I also notice that the medical professional asks how many nickels there are in a dollar and I realised that I did not know (in case you’re also not located in the US the answer is twenty apparently).
Some of these tests are a bit tough. It made me wonder about my own memory as I’m not sure I’d be able to pass such tests.
The video is just a bit loud I think and not great ASMR material so not one for the Procrastination Pen playlist.
How to do the Cranial Nerve Examination | Merck Manual Professional Version
It looks like startup funky music for videos in this playlist is going to be a theme.
Here the narrator is more muted and much more in keeping with what we’re looking for, I think. The video is designed to be for teaching/instruction so although there is an examination of a patient the actually dialogue between medical professional and “patient” does not feature in the video.
However, I think this one will make it to the Procrastination Pen playlist.
Cerebellar Examination: How to Assess Gait, Stance, and Coordination | Merck Manual
There is music at the start as before. Maybe eventually I will find a way to edit videos for their ASMR effects but that currently is not the purpose of this blog/playlist.
The narrator has learned his lesson after the somewhat loud presentation of the first video in this list. He is quite calm and reasonably quiet.
The exam proper appears without audio – the narrator is filling in what the stages in the exam mean. It is an instruction video that is also quite good for ASMR. This video will also be in the Procrastination Pen playlist.
How to do the Motor Examination | Merck Manual Professional Version
I notice that comments for these videos are turned off. Turning off comments stops some of the crazier contributions that we’ve seen of late but it also stops us working out if others are using these videos for their ASMR effects.
To me they seem a good find, this one included.
How to do the Sensory Exam | Merck Manual Professional Version
This is the longest video of the set, but it follows the format of the other videos seen so far. We’re entirely reliant upon the quality of the narrator here (especially to distract us from the music interludes). Fortunately, he has a good voice.
There are intrusions of parts of the genuine exam here. The only distraction with these interludes is the background noise. This is almost certainly the air-conditioning noise which we have become used to from other videos.
In this playlist whilst the medical professionals have changed between videos the “patient” remains the same.
Another good video for the Procrastination Pen playlist, I think.
How to Test Reflexes | Merck Manual Professional Version
Apart from the first video these have been consistent. Quite a good find this series and this particular video is worth making part of the Procrastination Pen playlist.
How to do a 4-Minute Neurologic Exam | Merck Manual Professional Version
This is exactly the same format as the other videos covered in this article. They were all posted six years ago. I notice that the notes tell me something about the Merck Manual:
“First published in 1899 as a small reference book for physicians and pharmacists, The Merck Manual grew in size and scope to become one of the world’s most widely used comprehensive medical resources for professionals and consumers. As The Manual evolved, it continually expanded the reach and depth of its offerings to reflect the mission of providing the best medical information to a wide cross-section of users, including medical professionals and students, veterinarians and veterinary students, and consumers. • Merck Manual Professional Version: http://www.MerckManuals.com/Professional”
I’m guessing that there is some financial consideration involved in its use. If it produces videos of this quality, I’m in favour (well until they totally remove my ability to see the videos in any case).
However, if the video recording guys are reading, please quieten down the funky music at the beginning (or better still go for a silent intro).
This is another one for the Procrastination Pen playlist, I think.
The overall playlist containing all the videos featured so far is here.
The above playlist has now grown quite large so I have started to weed out some of the less effective ones. However I realise that some people may consider them favourites so I have added the removed videos to an archive playlist.
However, if people who post videos keep taking those videos down again, or making them unavailable to a person writing a blog in the UK, then I may find the weeding is being done for me behind the scenes.
There is also the playlist for the small number of videos I have covered that require age verification. There has been limited demand for these so I doubt I will cover many more (unless I do so by accident).
I hope that you find them restful (and that you get some great sleep).
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There comes a point where I’ve been checking for ASMR videos for so long that I start to come back to items that I have covered before.
This one concerns me because I have seen it in my suggested videos list quite often so I am not certain that it has not featured somewhere previously in this blog.
If it has, then I apologise and I’ll ensure any duplications in the playlist are removed – I can imagine that would prove to be very irritating.
ASMR🏥🩺Unintentional – Physical Examination
I think a number of channels are carrying this video, at least it seems to come around in YouTube recommendations rather often. However, finding a duplicate with such scant information (I just have the first names of the participants) might be interesting.
Twenty-nine minutes of medical exam and the title calls it “Full Physical Examination” not only that but it tells us who originally supplied it i.e. Prohealthsys.
The “patient” in this one is Courtney, the medical professional is James. The location seems to be a gym. Courtney’s voice seems a little peppy for ASMR. James’ voice is better. Be warned though this isn’t going to be a James Gill. However at intervals it is quite gentle, which is better for us.
This is the first time I’ve seen the gown-held-like-a bikini-approach, although it is referred to in other videos as a technique to preserve privacy.
The Channel is A Quiet Place this has one hundred and seventy one videos and one hundred and thirty four subscribers on the day I’m looking at it. There are quite a few videos in here which I recognise and have featured previously elsewhere on this blog. There is also any number which I have not previously featured and so will probably crop up in future blog items.
Prohealthsys have their own channel this has four hundred and twenty eight videos but not the one above. Most appear to be featuring a Dr Vizniak who is not the medical professional in this video.
I would guess this is a Prohealthsys video which is an older one and has now been removed from the main Prohealthsys site.
Checking for “Prohealthsys exam” (via YouTube search) I find that there is the one above and a reversal of the roles in this one:
30 min Full Physical Exam Flow
This is on channel SuninSavannah which appears to have only this video on it.
This video also appears on Roos but with the title:
Unintentional ASMR | Full Medical Exam | Med School
It comes up so frequently in YouTube recommendations that I suspect it also crops up on other channels.
Courtney’s voice here is just way too loud, I mean talking to a football stadium loud. For some reason the air conditioning now sounds like it is supplying a blast furnace and there is a sound like a background trickle of water as well.
The presentation is also fast. If I’m wanting something for sleep, slow and measured is the way to go.
I have to confess to disappointment as following the James’ presentation I really wanted to like this video. But it wouldn’t be fair to add this to a playlist.
So one video only. There is no need to create a playlist for that.
The overall playlist for the videos covered so far in this blog is here:
The archive playlist of videos that were in the above playlist but found after lengthy review not to make the grade, is here:
I keep this in case people have personal favourites that they want to hear.
The playlist of videos regarding age verification is here:
I dislike these as they require me to stop and login to verify my age. You may find that you have more patience than I do.
I hope that you find the playlists restful and I hope you get plenty of a result.
If you liked this blog article why not follow this blog.
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