I notice that there is now a lot more traffic in social media sites that utilise pictures or videos than there is in sites dedicated to reading. So, it is feasible that writing a blog (to whatever level of skill) is now something of a dying art (a bit like writing thank-you letters to your aunt because you received a fountain pen for your birthday).
It seems few people write letters now other than solicitors and banks. People using fountain pens do so because they like pens, rather than it’s a thing that you just use.
I assume people still have aunts; however, I imagine any messages of thanks are now received via Signal, WhatsApp or even (the now somewhat dated) SMS.
Perhaps AI will save us by writing all these blog articles for us, however I wonder then who will be left to read them.
So, it is with a sense of some stubbornness that I write (however badly) another article on ASMR for sleep.
Today’s video comes from that very deep mine of videos which we have thoroughly excavated of late which is the video apparently produced as some kind of course work. Sadly, these always seem to be pressured efforts produced in public areas and as such the sound quality is often not quite there.
A number of these seem a great idea at first (to me at least) but have subsequently hit the Procrastination Pen archive list because they do not measure up to the competition we are seeing through continual review of the videos available.
So, it is with a triumph of optimism over experience that we come to today’s:
Head to toe
The sound is flat as if being recorded from some distance away (which may be the reality). The pace is frenetic (is someone timing the participants for some reason?)
From the introductory comments I heard that the medical professional is Carmen, a student (some kind of student but it was too fast for me to catch what).
Similarly, the “patient” could be “Charlene” (but that may well not be correct).
The date it is filmed is 03/08/2021 and they are at LIU campus Brooklyn.
LIU of course has its own YouTube channel. (This must be de rigueur for universities). However, there appear to be only fifty-nine videos here. As we have seen before these tend to be promotional videos for the university, rather than material that an ASMR-related blog can really make much use of.
The video (as is common for such videos) is in portrait mode (presumably filmed on a phone). As we have come to expect, there are various noises associated with equipment. Here, the muted nature of the volume works in our favour.
There are no comments permitted (which as has been pointed out before is probably wise). However, it does mean that I have no awareness as to whether other people have discovered this video and are using it for ASMR purposes. ASMR fans are so good at sniffing out a good video that a tracker dog would do less well. I therefore suspect quite a few have been here before me.
Once the examination-proper starts, things begin to slow down. (Thank goodness, this is supposed to be relaxing).
At nearly forty-two and a half minutes this is quite a long video. One does get the idea with such videos that in order to pass an assessment the student has to rattle through a list of certain phrases as if mentally following a checklist.
This often leads to a quite stilted presentation. (Presumably it is effective for assessment purposes, however).
Charlene (if that is her name) seems as anxious as we have come to expect in such videos. Perhaps the pace has not been relaxing for her either.
There are a number of thumps and bangs from the equipment. As pointed out before medical equipment does not seem to come with the quiet option.
Definition:
JVD: Jugular Vein Distention, bulging of veins in the neck.
The channel is carmen yip which has one video and no playlists. Yet, despite this, it has two hundred and five subscribers, that is quite an achievement I think.
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 to log on, this interrupts the 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.
I was reflecting that, in the world of ASMR, it is something of a miracle that anyone takes the time to read anything.
Specifically, those people using ASMR to aid in sleep are unlikely to be the type of person who is taking a leisurely stroll around the estate with the dogs followed by a slow browse through the morning papers.
No, I suspect that they are the kind of person with a hectic day, coupled with a hectic evening and a brain that whirs away throughout that time. A brain which they are then desperate to find the “switch” for so that they can turn it off on demand and get some desperately-needed sleep.
It seems incumbent upon me to take as little of the available time of such a person. On that basis, I’ll ensure these articles stay brief and I’ll remind anybody happening upon this article that the playlist, this is dedicated to producing, can be accessed, (without reading this article in its entirety) by scrolling to the last paragraph where you will find the details.
It is simply to add that I recommend you pick up the Procrastination Pen playlist on YouTube where you can watch it using the shuffle-mode available there. This ensures the presentation is random so that you are not always watching the same material in a predictable sequence. I write the articles in the order of the channel I am investigating and the playlist is populated in the order that I write the article. This produces a playlist where videos of similar content are bunched together. That might prove a bit dull to watch if you simply watch the playlist in order.
Today’s video follows the medical examination theme we have been covering for a number of articles now.
Hand overview
It is just over sixteen minutes long so a reasonable length but unlike the majority of professional videos we have seen includes no associated notes.
Comments are permitted (bravely in my view). But at least the comments reveal to me that the ASMR community is all over this already and hence this will come as no surprise to any ASMR fans out there.
A bonus point for this video is that there is none I mean zero introductory music. I wish that many other videos were the same.
Curtis is a gift to ASMR afficionados, his voice is beautifully quiet and measured. I can imagine many presenters would give a great deal to have a voice like this.
The video quality is not great at all, it makes the straight-to-tape quality of the 1980s look great. But given no one will be watching, because they are trying to get some sleep, this should not be an obstruction.
The channel is EdwardTDavis and contains just fifteen videos. It is possible that it is the same Edward Davis who also works at the Royal Orthopaedic hospital.
Fifteen is not a huge number but perhaps a little many for our overworked relaxation seeker, so I will try to limit myself to videos in which Curtis Robb appears.
(I think we will be returning to this channel in the not-too-distant future).
There appear to be four of these including the one at the start of this article. The remaining three are as follows:
Hand run through
At just two and a half minutes this is brief even for us. (I’ve known YouTube adverts that are quite a bit longer than that).
Curtis remains on good form. Although there are no obvious ASMR-related comments there is no reason to suspect that ASMR fans are not also tuning into this one.
I notice that all the videos on this channel are dated eleven years ago as at today’s date, so I wonder what happened. This could have been a great ASMR resource, this channel (had the posting of videos continued, that is).
Foot and ankle run through
This is every bit as good as the last two and the comments that relate to them relate also to this.
The “patient” is Sarah – the same patient as in the other videos.
Foot and ankle overview
this one is a bit more substantial at eleven and a half minutes. Curtis Robb is still excellent in terms of his voice. Sarah appears again as a “patient”. The location this time seems to be a lecture theatre or conference hall rather than a hospital room.
The Edward Davis 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 to log on, this interrupts the 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.
ASMR is now so mainstream that even the most restrained of media outlets is now featuring ASMR in their articles, but I was intrigued to come across an article in which it was being used to cure insomnia, after all isn’t that exactly what I have been trying to achieve with my little old blog here.
It is supportive to come across people struggling in the same way and coming up with vastly similar conclusions, it is feasible that I am on the correct track.
The Procrastination Pen playlist is now a great large collection with enough videos to guide you through the longest night. I even found the other night I was listening to a video that I had forgotten I had even covered in this blog.
Today’s video is a short one:
How to palpate the carpal bones in the wrist
Just over four and a half minutes. But it does not stop it being a good one for our purposes. It has a brief piece of music at the start which is a bit loud to be honest. After which the presentation is nicely measured. Not what you would call quiet though.
Fortunately, there is no background noise and the format is landscape (not that generally we will be watching so much as listening to it, of course).
As a professional video it comes with a healthy set of notes:
“17 Mar 2015
Occupational Therapist reviews how to find the carpal in the wrist. YES we know she said palpitate and meant palpate … its ALL GOOD! Learn more here: https://www.liveconferences.com/packa…”
Clicking the URL produces no result, no surprise with a video posted that long ago.
Although comments are permitted, this one seems to have escaped the trolls and there is no obvious posting from an ASMR fan either. I can’t believe I am the first, although it would be delightful to find a new video for the ASMR community (those that read this blog in any case).
There are three hundred and fifty two videos in here as at today’s date, that’s rather a few to review in any one sitting.
There are zero playlists, none at all. Using the playlist as a mechanism of thinning down videos for review is therefore not going to help us here.
There also do not seem to be any videos present in the same series.
Taking a sample of the videos I found that a number of them are loud, contain distracting music, or are just not a good fit for the Procrastination Pen playlist.
There are very few remaining, including this:
Using Neurodynamics in Rehab
The notes are:
“17 Mar 2015
Physical Therapist discusses neurodynamics and treating upper limb pathology”
It is reasonably quiet, no startup music, no significant background noise. Not exactly the quietest presentation we’ve ever seen however.
Most of the remaining videos have an unpleasant (loud) startup sequence – I’m not going to start with those. Some have a very loud presentation style which is completely unsuitable for our purposes.
It looks like we have mined the resources this channel has to offer and come up with two-brief videos.
At least you only had to be a here a few short minutes, then you can get back to what you were doing. More ASMR material next time on the Procrastination Pen.
The Treatment2Go 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 to log on, this interrupts the 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.
Exploring YouTube, as I do now several times a week, leads to many random dead ends. Let’s face it, when faced with a screen full of prospective videos, I am looking at a thumbnail of each video and making a guess as to what the video will sound like for any ASMR fans out there that are reading this blog. Which of the many videos might be relaxing for a person, like myself, seeking more sleep than they currently achieve.
I am not that successful. For every video you have seen, there are many dozens with off-putting noises, strange sequences or that my suspicious senses kick off – thinking that, in fact, they were generated by a professional ASMR artist.
Of those I have evaluated, a subset get into the Procrastination Pen playlist. Sadly after a period of listening, quite a few of those subsequently get archived because they just don’t turn out to be that appealing in the long run.
It is therefore no surprise that once a good video is located by ASMR fans on YouTube a loyal following develops. In some cases, once videos are taken down, ASMR fans recover the video and repost it on their own channel.
(Much as I applaud this from the viewpoint of video availability, it is fraught with risk – out there are some hungry copyright solicitors and they, I am certain, would love to spot infringements of copyright and gain any fees due as a consequence).
Today’s video does not permit comments. From the perspective of defraying the Internet trolls this is jolly good news. However, it does not assist me in determining if ASMR afficionados have found this one already. In most cases, I assume they have. ASMR fans are substantially faster than I am at discovering new content.
The video is this one:
Neuro exam 2
It is just shy of ten minutes, so not terrible in length in terms of a medical examination video. There are no notes, so I suspect an amateur, rather than a professionally, produced video. It starts a bit loud, and straight away we get the impression this is another of those videos produced on a course required as part of a student’s assessment.
That said, background noise is negligible, the volume is not terrible (other than the occasional clang of equipment which is normal in terms of such videos.
Sadly, it is in portrait mode. I assume because it is filmed on a mobile phone but this will not be a problem because you’ll be listening rather than watching.
My viewing was constantly interposed by adverts at an inappropriate level of volume (which seems to be YouTube’s latest thing). I have no hatred of the adverts as such, but if I’m watching a video for ASMR content, an advert some levels of volume louder than the video seems a very bad idea.
But I digress. The pace of the video is slow and the level of speaking is (mostly) quiet. The scene is in a medical room but there are no clues as to where. At intervals there are other people talking in the background which is quite common in this type of video as well.
As we have seen before participants find it hard to take the process seriously and this is also the case here with laughter on occasion (on other occasions obvious boredom).
Someone interrupts the video at one stage (also a hazard in these videos) by knocking on the door. The BBC doesn’t seem to be challenged in this way…
I’ll assume that Anna was the medical professional and given it was posted earlier this year, may well still be on the course that it is a requirement for.
The channel has fourteen videos and no playlists. That is a fair few for one blog item and it looks like the current participant is the favourite “patient” as she appears in the majority of them. So I can’t go for my much used method of only reviewing videos with the same medical professional or same “patient”.
So I’ll go through all of the videos in the channel (as at today’s date anyway). If you haven’t the time for such a lengthy post, scroll to the end and the playlist will be waiting there for you. Hop over to YouTube – click the shuffle function – lie back and drift off to sleep (well in theory at least). Please let me have any feedback (such as favourite videos you’d like including).
The next video is this one:
Peripheral vascular exam 2
I think the patient introduces herself as “Emma Hilt” but it could probably be anything as it passes in a real rush. April 16th 2002 is her DoB, not that it is relevant in checking if this is a genuine medical video.
This video is short at just under three and a half minutes. Again, there is a comforting lack of background noise. No notes, Emma (I’ll assume that is her name) yawns frequently throughout so it obviously isn’t the most compelling thing she has on that day.
There are more equipment noises – I guess quiet equipment just isn’t a priority. Either that or medical professionals are more interested in moving equipment around quickly rather than doing so quietly, which seems a sensible choice.
The next video is this one:
Bedside assessment
This is just over six and a half minutes
I think that Emma tells us that she is at nursing school (although I have no idea which one). She seems either very bored or she’s getting even less sleep than I habitually do. There are conversation noises from adjacent rooms (although it isn’t excessively loud).
There are more equipment noises but mostly a very measured examination.
Nose mouth throat exam
These videos are remarkably consistent given they are produced as part of a student assessment. This, has more laughter and, to me, a more obvious set of air conditioning noises. But at least it lacks the conversation from adjacent rooms. Emma still seems utterly bored. Perhaps she has in mind her own set of videos, yet to be filmed, for the same course.
Hearing exam
The same two participants in what is quite a short video at just over three and a half minutes. No notes and no comments. Background noise, now seems to be a companion – which is something that we are used to of course.
Eye exam
This is almost identical with the previous ones apart from noises relating to what I assume are messages arriving on a mobile phone (perhaps the one being used to do the filming). It is just over four and a half minutes in length. There are air conditioning noises, general amusement in places and utter boredom for the “patient”. It is feasible that these were all filmed at one time and that the process was just a tad wearing.
At one stage Anna forgets her medical terminology and one gets the feeling it’s all getting a bit tiresome for them.
Skin, hair, nails exam
Anna forgets which video she is supposed to be filming. Emma announces she has “KP” which I had to look up.
KP: Keratosis Pilaris painless bumps on the skins – a long term condition.
Anna again forgets where she is going and then gets very loud, perhaps to block out the conversation from an adjacent room. There is a thudding sound at one stage almost as if someone were tapping the phone that is doing the filming.
Abdominal exam
The same participants this video is just under four and three quarter minutes. Background conversation noises are there from the outset and air conditioning is really getting into its stride. Anna sounds fed up with the process already.
Emma states that she has IBS.
IBS Irritable Bowel Syndrome a lifelong condition affecting the gut which can be controlled but not cured.
Anna is again amused at intervals.
The phone is relocated part way through with associated clanging noises. Presumably equipment was kicked at the same time. Anna forgets what she is supposed to say but the approach to the examination is quiet.
It’s quite unusual to see one of these videos in which the person participating seems quite stuck. However, I don’t think this impacts the ASMR-i-ness as such.
There seems to be equipment missing (perhaps a hammer) which is reminiscent of the student who used canteen equipment to film one of these videos. Anna just uses her finger.
Peripheral vascular exam
The same participants feature again, the video is five minutes ten seconds long. If all of these videos were filmed in one session, I assume it took the two of them a very long time. Anna has problems getting through the door initially so there is a loud bang at the start. There is background conversation from an adjacent room and at stages it continues quite loudly. Air conditioning has now fully established itself and is working on becoming a session musician.
Anna forgets what she intends to say (but at least we are fully aware that she is not following notes off screen).
More message noises are heard from the phone being used to film this. There are more equipment noises and Anna is again amused by the parts that are going wrong (mainly where she forgets terminology).
Cardiac assessment
We’re in the swing of this now and all the same symptoms are in this one that were in all the previous ones. The level of background noise merely differs.
Just over five and a quarter minutes so not long. It follows the exact same theme as those we have seen previously. The start is quite stumbly as if Anna is finding her way through it. It remains quiet though apart from overheard nearby conversations and the low roar of air conditioning, which is constant.
I think Anna’s voice is actually improving as we go on and if some of those niggling additional noises were dispatched this could have been a really great video. In any case I’m intending to trial these in the Procrastination Pen playlist with the understanding that some or all may ultimately get dispatched to the archive.
Lungs and thorax assessment
This is approaching six minutes which feels long in comparison to some of the others but for the videos we commonly see is still a short video.
We’re used to the intro now as it runs through exactly the same set of sentences each time. The examination itself though differs (fortunately for us).
Anna appears to be struggling to remember some specific terminology (unclear what). There are noises of doors opening in adjacent rooms so it is feasible that other students are filming vastly similar videos for their courses in the rooms next door to this one.
Overall, though, a good video for the Procrastination Pen playlist I think.
Head, Face, Neck Assessment
Here, Emma is wearing some kind of identity badge which one would hope would give us the institution involved. Sadly, it is too tiny for me to read so it remains a mystery. Just under four and a half minutes, so a short one in terms of this set and the last one in which Anna and Emma appear together.
It seems to start a bit louder than previously and the air conditioning is ever present (or I’m getting tired by now).
However, to have produced this number of videos in such a short period is quite a piece of work.
Anna now has a new “patient”. Michael Atkis (I think) DoB. 02-12-03 (December in case there are any US readers). This, as expected, changes the sound profile markedly as Michael has a much deeper voice than Emma.
However, he does not get to talk a great deal.
The background air conditioning now sounds like it is aiming for some kind of award and the extraneous background talking noises are now quite pronounced.
Michael tells us that we are at “college of nursing” I think – it’s hard to discern. But I cannot make out where that would be.
This is over seven minutes in length. Again, Anna is a bit tentative, apparently as she forgets some terminology.
Having seen this examination done professionally by Vicki Scott we have been a bit spoiled; I think. This one is a bit more filled with humour – especially as Anna forgets the content she needs to perform.
Musculoskeletal home assessment video
the last one in this set and this has been a rather long post for which I apologise. Anna returns with Michael. Almost identical to the previous one in terms of sound – maybe more noise from the next-door room than previously.
Just under seven minutes so only slightly different in length to the previous one. Anna laughs quite a bit in this one too.
Very loud equipment noises in this, I jumped at one stage because I was listening rather than watching the screen.
The Anna Cason 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 to log on, this interrupts the 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.
For the keen Procrastination Pen enthusiast, the Moran CORE channel will not be a mystery because we have been here before.
At that time, we encountered a “patient” Megan who had a good voice for us, but sadly didn’t get much air time. There is not a chance we will find any other Megan material unless someone reading this happens to know that she has a channel and passes that info along. (A search on “Megan” brings up all kinds of unrelated material as you would imagine.)
On the basis that we are unlikely to see that happen, I return to Moran CORE because one of the professionals on this site also has a good voice. This is David Meyer.
The video I start with is this one:
Using Subjective Refraction to Calculate Glasses Prescription and Fit a Contact Lens
Straight away the advantages of a professional video are heard, no background noise. In this case, no funky start up music (heaven be praised). David has a nice quiet and methodical approach – it’s all going swimmingly. The video informs us that David is the Director of Contact Lens Services at the Moran Eye Center Utah.
In addition, the video has notes: “8 Feb 2018
Title: Using Subjective Refraction to Calculate Glasses Prescription and Fit a Contact Lens
Cylinder: lens power needed to correct astigmatism
Vertex: the distance between the cornea to the back of a lens
Slit lamp: a lamp the ophthalmologist uses to view the retina
Although, occasionally, he does get a little more energetic in his presentation, he does not stray here into loud. All-in-all I think a good one for the Procrastination Pen Playlist.
Moran of course has approximately one thousand videos available and thinning down those to review for this blog is one of those interesting tasks we have seen before.
In this case I think the only approach is to search YouTube for videos in which David appears (on the understanding that I will probably miss one or two videos featuring David which the search does not capture.)
I have no idea why there are two channels for one centre but I notice this latter channel has a lot less subscribers and a much more manageable one hundred videos. I suspect if it is anything like the University Channels we have explored before, this will be a marketing channel and of limited interest to us
This one, sadly includes ongoing funky music. I think it is safe to say this is a promo video and as a consequence David is much more energised here. Great for David less good for relaxing-sleep-time videos. This is not one for the Procrastination Pen playlist.
The notes back this up, definitely more of a sale-sy pitch to it “25 Jan 2023
David Meyer, OD, FAAO, specializes in the fitting of contact lenses at the John A. Moran Eye Center, University of Utah, Salt Lake City. He also practices at Moran’s Midvalley Health Center. He primarily focuses on keratoconus, post-surgical corneas, pediatrics, irregular or high astigmatism, and fitting traumatized eyes. Dr. Meyer also provides primary eye care for those who do not wear contact lenses.
Call 801-581-2352 to schedule an appointment at our University and Midvalley location.”
Proper Fit and Evaluation of Gas Permeable Contact Lens
Back on the original Moran Core channel and at just over ten minutes a more substantive video, such that it feels like we are on home ground again.
Yet again no funky intro music, a quiet David voice which we are used to from the first video. The “patient” is the same, the approach is equally measured, however the technical terminology just keeps on coming.
The notes are somewhat brief this time “8 Feb 2018
Title: Proper Fit and Evaluation of Gas Permeable Contact Lens
Keratoconus: a bulge in the cornea which affects vision.
This is substantially shorter in that it is just over three and a half minutes. The condition sounds alarming but fortunately there are none of the, sometimes-shocking, images that can haunt the dark alleyways of YouTube. So nothing (I hope) to aid in your sleeplessness. As a result I am going to include it in The Procrastination Pen playlist. It might be weeded in the future.
The playlist is subject to continuous review (by me) so if it turns out that something is just not a good fit I’ll plop it into the archive list (just in case it turns out to be one of your favourites, in which case it would b rude to ban it completely).
I hope that you find the playlist restful. My advice is always to pick up the playlist on YouTube itself. That way you can make use of the shuffle function and play it in random order. Otherwise, you may get a lot of similar videos playing one after another.
The Moran Core 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 are 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 listening to log on, this interrupts the 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.
Welcome back, another day at the Procrastination Pen and another review of a potential ASMR video. Those of you who have been reading this for a while now will understand the drill. If you’re a newbie, hello and welcome. Each blog item I take another video which was not designed for ASMR and review it, in case it has ASMR effects or at the very least could be thought relaxing enough to help you sleep.
At the end of the exercise any worthwhile videos are added to the Procrastination Pen playlist. I always put a reference to the playlist at the end of each article so if you are short of time skip to the end, pick up the url, hop over to YouTube and listen away. I hope you enjoy it.
Still here? Marvellous, well onto today’s video then which is this one:
This has a set of notes associated with it and boy are they long (I’ll skip the parts dedicated to asking for subscriptions) “27 Feb 2021 Upper Extremity Muscle Palpations
Phew. And as for the notes so for the video which is in excess of 2 hours in length!
Comments are permitted which as I have pointed out before is somewhat brave. However some ASMR fans have found this one much before me. I have mentioned before that ASMR fans are equalled only by Jonathan Creek in terms of ferreting out ASMR content (it is with great joy that I occasionally find one which does not seem to have been tracked down before)
One of the commentators states that the timings are as follows:
“Deltoid 0:01
Supraspinatus 4:02
Infraspinatus 6:51
Subscapularis 9:34
Teres Minor 14:14
Teres Major 17:32
Biceps Brachii 22:38
Coracobrachialis 28:17
Brachialis 32:10
Brachioradialus 35:54
Triceps Brachii 38:58
Extensor Carpi Radialis Longus and Brevis 44:10
Extensor Digitorum 49:15
Extensor Carpi Ulnaris 53:10
Abductor Pollicis Longus 55:24
Anconeus 58:30
Extensor Indicis 1:00:23
Extensor Pollicis Longus and Brevis 1:03:06
Pronator Teres 1:07:32
Supinator 1:10:39
Flexor Carpi Radialus 1:14:04
Flexor Carpi Ulnaris 1:16:40
Flexor Digitorum Profundus 1:20:07
Flexor Digitorum Superficialis 1:25:08
Flexor Pollicics Longus 1:30:38
Palmaris Longus 1:34:13
Pronator Quadratus 1:37:48
Abductor Digiti Minimi 1:40:34
Abductor Pollicis Brevis 1:43:00
Adductor Pollicus 1:45:00
Flexor Digiti Minimi (Manus) 1:48:18
Flexor Pollicis Brevis 1:50:10
Lumbricals (Manus) 1:52:16
Opponens Digiti Minimi 1:57:06
Opponens Pollicis 1:59:16
Palmar Interossei & Dorsal Interossei 2:01:41”
I have not reviewed the timings myself, but I can’t imagine you’re going to need them if you’re using the video to drop off to.
The downside of a video with all these sections is that YouTube seems to take the opportunity at every division to throw in another loud and therefore sleep-disturbing advert. If there is a mystery setting that can put off such adverts till the end of play I’d dearly love to know what it is.
The medical professional has a good voice but sadly is not identified. The recording method leaves a lot to be desired, this video is not so much quiet as near silent. It is unusual that I have to turn the volume up in order to review a video.
However, the presentation is calm and methodical and let’s face it with a video of this length you’re probably only going to need this one video to fall asleep to.
It is probably a worthy addition to the playlist but all videos are continually reviewed and occasionally jettisoned into the archive list (the archive only exists in case I bin one of your favourites).
Given the length I think this time I will limit myself to one video however the channel is Blackriver & Bootsma Education.
At the time of review there are two hundred and ninety videos on this channel and most of them are substantially shorter than today’s video. For this reason, this is a channel worth noting and returning to. With any luck they solved their microphone volume issues on some of the subsequent videos.
Unusually (given there is only one video here) I have created a B&B Education playlist on the Procrastination Pen channel here:
This is only because I have high confidence other videos will be reviewed on this channel and added to the overall playlist in the future.
The overall playlist which seasoned blog readers will know well is here:
The archive list of those which fell from grace 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 listening to log on, this interrupts the 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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In searching for new ASMR videos I’m prepared to try various avenues. You will have noticed that on occasion I do voyage away from the main theme, which to date has been medical (and similar) examination videos.
Despite the attrition of videos slowly being removed from YouTube, the Procrastination Pen playlist continues to grow and hence I can afford to be quite critical of its contents and to weed out those that are less desirable for sleep promotion than at first thought.
The overall playlist as usual appears at the end of this article, so if you are short of time scroll straight to the end and pick it up from there.
If you’re still reading, onto today’s idea.
Of late I have noticed that some gruff and loud presenters seem to calm down and go quiet when dealing with young people. Today’s is a foray into that area therefore.
It is this one:
Rachel Bridges Head to Toe Assessment
As expected, it is quiet, calm and methodically presented. The only thing I would say is that you might need to turn the volume up a bit.
At just over twenty-five minutes, it is quite a good length and it seems others think so too as the channel has over two thousand subscribers as at today’s date. However, (probably sensibly) comments are not permitted which means I cannot tell if ASMR fans have already tracked this down. (As we’ve seen before some comments are less than helpful).
The small person seems suitably entertained including being tickled at one stage, I think.
The medical institution is not identified. Rachel has an identification badge but I cannot make out what it says.
There is as expected continual background noise (probably air conditioning) as we’ve heard before.
I would guess from the orientation of the video (Portrait mode) that it was taken using a mobile phone or similar device.
Rachel maintains a conversation with the small person throughout, including in areas I thought they would find hard to comprehend.
I think this one belongs in the Procrastination Playlist, although it might be subject to future weeding.
This one is posted in 2018 to the following channel:
The videos on here range from five years ago to five months ago and there are only four of them. There has to be a reason why there are quite so many subscribers. I would make a wild guess some ASMR fans have got here before me.
Looking at the other videos:
September 15, 2017
Very brief, just over a minute and appears to be reading from a piece about nurse practitioners. Rachel has a good voice but this one does not seem to be a great fit for the playlist. I think this might be an assessment piece for a course which is in line with other videos that have been featured before.
Another very brief video:
January 20, 2023
This one is on the role of a psychiatric nurse mental health practitioner, again, it is reading from a script and is not a good fit for the playlist.
The next one is another “Head to Toe” but without the small person (the person involved is more adult sized). Let’s see if my theory about people changing behaviour based on whether a person is a young person is supported by the second video.
The video is this one:
R.Bridges Head to toe assessment
Straight away the presentation is a lot faster than the last “Head to Toe” on this channel, and a lot less measured. However, the tone remains quiet. The presentation is so fast in places I am not sure what medical terminology is in use.
I have a feeling that the “patient” here actually has a slightly better voice (than Rachel). However, he gets little to say (he is also unidentified).
Comments are permitted but there are no comments that are helpful to us (such as where this is for example).
However, at one stage the badge comes into view and I believe it states “NP Student” at “Indiana Wesleyan”.
So at least we have identified the location, if not the “patient”.
We’re back to landscape mode with this one but the background noise persists. The volume is slightly louder, not markedly, but I would say the approach is less gentle (than the first video in this article).
It is just over nineteen and a half minutes so still a good length and on balance I would say also belongs in the Procrastination Pen playlist. However, I keep reviewing this playlist and videos get demoted to the archive playlist all the time based upon their long-term sleep promotion effects (or otherwise).
The video goes out of focus at one stage but, given you will not be watching but lying there praying for sleep whilst listening, I think that’s unlikely to affect you.
As is not atypical for assessment videos. There are occasional thuds as equipment is relocated – in the past I have weeded videos for this, and this one might be another that goes the same way.
I notice that (like me) the patient has apparent problems with the heel to toe exercise (not great if you have dodgy balance).
So a couple of videos from Rachel worthy of conclusion and so, as is habitual on this site, I have created a Rachel Bridges playlist:
The main playlist on the Procrastination pen is (as always) here:
The archive list of videos which whilst once in that main list were found over time to be less listenable than at first thought is here:
The playlist of videos requiring age verification is here:
I hope that you continue to find them restful
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I seem to have meandered into the world of ASMR YouTube channels more recently. It will not be a permanent move. My intention is to get right back to genuine medical videos.
Today’s channel is ASMR Sandwich Breath, as mentioned before sandwich breath is a bit of an insider ASMR joke. People either know of the sandwich breath video or they do not. Afficionados of ASMR videos are expected to understand the inside jokes (I only get a few of them as there are a great many such videos).
Today’s video is this one:
Physical Medical Exam Unintentional ASMR
The video starts with the title PE for TOPE Student Demonstration
Ross here the “patient” and Jessica the medical professional. Jessica states this is the University of Washington and that she is a registered nurse. The comments state that the original of this video has now been deleted. Assuming that we can trust that, this is possibly the only place we will encounter this video.
The University of Washington has its own channel of course, 757 videos on that channel and 12 playlists. The upshot of which is that some playlists are composed of over 100 videos.
Ross does not seem the happiest patient, or taking a more positive view he could be half asleep.
Jessica enunciates the medical terms here in such a clear way, possibly the best I have heard so far.
I also notice a great deal of time taken to explain what is coming next. Perhaps this thoroughness explains why the video is in excess of thirty-four minutes.
This is very quiet. Jessica at intervals is on a par with Vicki Scott which is quite a statement, the result is a video which is a good playlist candidate.
The video concludes with a healthy amount of information Jessica Burke-Lazarus BSN, RN Midwifery-DNP student was the medical professional. Jessica, it turns out, graduated in 2013 and now works in Seattle.
The “patient” was Rosson Wiebe PMHNP-DNP Student Ross also graduated in 2013 and went on to work in Florida.
It also tells us that it was filmed December 9 2011 in the Center for Excellence in Nursing Education at the University of Washington.
ASMR Sandwich breath has forty-eight videos as at today’s date, that is a fair few videos to attempt to motor through. A quick scan of them reveals some old favourites which we have covered before.
The usual approach is to reduce the number to be covered by selecting a suitable playlist from the channel.
There are five playlists on here but some of them are a little on the long side.
Recently, as happens in everyone’s life, things have been stressful. Habitually in the past, this would mean that I would achieve substantially less sleep. However, the addition of some Bose QuietComfort headphones (a company with which I am affiliated in no sense) and the Procrastination Pen playlist has really helped in this respect. The sleep isn’t super refreshing, don’t get me wrong, but there is at least more of it than I might have expected in similar circumstances in the past.
I hope that you find the playlist is helpful in your pursuit of sleep, no matter the headphones that you choose to employ to listen to it.
Today is another one from an old favourite channel which regular readers will instantly recognise. I also think, if anything, this video is superior in terms of restfulness than the last video I featured for this particular channel.
The video is this one:
Examination of the Cranial Nerves – Demonstration
At just over seven minutes it’s not huge in length and the comments lead me to suspect that the ASMR community has thoroughly taken to this one, adopted it and gone out for walks with it in the park on Sundays.
As a professionally produced video it, of course, has notes and the notes in this case are very helpful:
This is a real-time demonstration illustrating technique and patient interaction involved in the Examination of the Cranial Nerves.
The film was produced by practising clinicians to aid the teaching of clinical examination skills. It starts at the point when the clinician has finished taking the medical history and begins the clinical examination.
Presented by Dr Richard Abbott MD FRCP Consultant Neurologist. Produced and Directed by Dr Irene Peat FRCR FRCP, Dr Nicholas Port MBChB BSc and Jon Shears.
The video starts without introductory music – wow!
It begins quietly, it continues perfectly. The medical professional and the “patient” both have excellent voices. All-in-all a video one could wish would go on for better than forty five minutes.
But it is a brief one, so we must console ourselves (like the Hollie Berry material) that at least it exists and is on a University channel (and so may exist for a while yet).
Hopefully it (the channel) sticks around. Some of the pure ASMR channels have disappeared of late and I do wonder if some channel owners fall foul of copyright action (although I have no evidence for this of course).
However, there is another in the same series (sadly only the one more) and as I prefer to get the videos from original sources, if I can, I’ll go with that video.
(I have used pure ASMR channels before this, but I do try to implement the more po-faced approach of locating unintentional ASMR videos the old-fashioned way i.e. by watching a lot of normal videos and trying to locate any restful ones).
Examination of the Cranial Nerves – Explanation
This is just less than sixteen and a quarter minutes long. There is again no startup music, thankyou video recording persons for this (and other such persons take note).
It starts again quietly, it continues quietly, in my view it is every bit as good as the previous one.
The comments indicate the ASMR community love this, with many cross references to other ASMR videos known to those “in the know”. By this stage I imagine that you are all familiar with them as well. There being no mystery to them, other than the need to watch far too much potential ASMR material.
This is a detailed explanation of the examination of the Cranial Nerves illustrating technique and patient interaction. The film was produced by practising clinicians to aid the teaching of clinical examination skills. It starts at the point when the clinician has finished taking the medical history and begins the clinical examination. Presented by Dr Richard Abbott MD FRCP Consultant Neurologist. Produced and Directed by Dr Irene Peat FRCR FRCP, Dr Nicholas Port MBChB BSc and Jon Shears. More Clinical Examination materials can be found at; http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/msce…”
I’m afraid the urls no longer lead to additional material which, given the video was posted in excess of eleven years ago, is probably no surprise.
In addition, the Internet Archive has no record of it (as at today’s date in any case).
Very regrettably that appears to be all Dr Abbott and “Paul” left for us. They enriched the ASMR community with their (sadly brief) presence and we could have but hoped for more.
So back to what you were doing then, but remember to come back in a week’s time.
The University of Leicester 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 listening to log on, this interrupts the 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.
After quite a few blog posts and a rather large number of draft blog items which never saw the light of day, I still remain interested in ASMR videos. I still listen to the Procrastination Pen playlist most days. I rely on it to drop off to sleep, commonly if I wake up stark awake in the early hours of the morning. For this reason I have high hopes that if you are reading this in the hope of getting some insomnia relief, especially if you know that you are susceptible to ASMR symptoms, that at least one of the videos I have found so far will become one of your favourites.
As is now typical the full Procrastination Pen playlist is referenced at the end of this blog item. If you are short of time scroll all the way down to it – hop over to YouTube – hit the shuffle function and get some restful moments.
If instead you’re keen to find out what new video I have happened across in my searches, it is this one:
Skin: Demo Exam
Back to the funky music which we know and are not at all fond of. It starts off a little energetically but it soon settles down.
It’s a professional video and, as we have seen before, it comes with a reasonable set of notes “17 Feb 2016
In today’s medical practice, knowing how to spot physical signs of nutritional imbalances during a routine physical examination is an essential diagnostic tool. This nutrition-focused skin exam is conducted by Elizabeth Boham, MD, MS, RD. https://www.drboham.com/
N Sight is presented by the Institute for Functional Medicine.”
Comments are denied (probably wise) so I cannot tell if other ASMR fans are here before me, but with a video like this, the odds are that they have been.
It is just over three minutes so a short one for us but it is calm and measured. Dr Boham has a good voice for us I think and is worthy of checking further – in case she features in other, similar videos.
It has 2710 subscribers and is therefore popular and with twenty videos on the day I’m looking at it that is quite some achievement. (Some sites we have seen have many more videos than that).
There are four playlists and the great thing is that there is one playlist dedicated to Dr Boham – this makes life a great deal easier. The play list Skin Exam
has four videos of which the above one is video two in the set.
At first sight the others look less promising. They appear to be more presenting than medical examination as such. However, it is worth giving them a proper review.
Sadly, there is no relief from the funky start up music, people love their brand even if it keeps other people awake!
This starts out as a presentation by Dr Boham which is not reassuring. However Dr Boham does have a good voice for us. The downside is that at every interval (within what is a very short video at only four and three quarter minutes) the funky music plays again. This gets rather tiresome.
The notes are as follows:
“14,451 views 17 Feb 2016
In today’s medical practice, knowing how to spot physical signs of nutritional imbalances during a routine physical examination is an essential diagnostic tool. This nutrition-focused skin exam introduction is conducted by Elizabeth Boham, MD, MS, RD.
N Sight is presented by the Institute for Functional Medicine.”
However, I have come over all charitable (Dr Boham does have a rather good voice) so I am going to include this in the Procrastination Pen playlist for now (it may be a victim of subsequent weeding).
Skin: Teaching Exam
Notes again: “17 Feb 2016
In today’s medical practice, knowing how to spot physical signs of nutritional imbalances during a routine physical examination is an essential diagnostic tool. This nutrition-focused skin exam is conducted by Elizabeth Boham, MD, MS, RD.
N Sight is presented by the Institute for Functional Medicine.”
This is actually video three in the set, video two being the one that we first came in with. Yet again the funky music. Dr Boham starts off a bit energetic in presentation. This is sad given the standard set by the video we started with.
However, I still like Dr Boham’s voice and I’m rather fond of the way in which she pronounces “Capillaries” so I am (at the moment) prepared to let it into the playlist. In any case at just shy of four and a half minutes it is really short. It is a shame I can’t delete the music and make it a decently quiet video.
And so to the final video:
(in this playlist anyway)
Skin: Conclusion
Annoying music – tick, really short video (this one just over one and a half minutes) – tick, duplicated notes from the other videos in this playlist – tick.
In an ideal world the video would have no music at all.
The N Sight 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 are 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 part way through a playlist in order to log on, this interrupts the flow/sleep dependent upon how long you’ve been listening. 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.
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