According to a guide I was reading recently, in order to be successful in the cut and thrust world of blog posts this really should be entitled “Ten ways to the sleep you’re hoping for” or similar. Apparently, I should have researched my audience so that I know I’m targeting a fifty-year-old non-smoker living in West Wales with her five cats and a small moped called Nigel.
As you can tell, I have not done that.
So if by some miraculous twist of fate you have happened across this blog post, welcome. I hope that you enjoy and if you feel so disposed tell all of your ASMR-loving friends. If you are living with multiple cats and a moped, or if you are not.
Today we are looking at a video from an establishment that even I have heard of. I am hopeful that it’s expertise also churns out medical professionals with a gentle deliberate manner and calm attentive voices.
Percussion of the Chest (Stanford Medicine 25)
It begins with a funky tune which, sadly has become the norm for such videos. However, the medical professional’s voice is actually quite good. This is quite obviously an instruction video but lacks the elevated volume and strident delivery of many such videos.
The “patient” is Geoff (or possibly Jeff). As usual for such videos some of the comments are not particularly relevant or even complimentary. I am beginning to prefer the videos where commentary is denied altogether.
A search around the Internet reveals that this is Dr. Abraham Verghese who even has his own Wikipedia entry and website.
(I wonder if it is feasible to create a Wikipedia entry for yourself, that could be quite fun).
This is not as great as Dr James Gill but is a worthy addition to the playlist, I think. The video is part of a playlist
In which there are only two videos. The second of which is
Stigmata of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (Stanford Medicine 25)
(The same patient, the same medical professional, the same institution).
Again, with the funky music, which, thankfully is soon over. This is equally as good as the last one.
Sadly, it is also quite brief.
So, a brief playlist today but it would seem that we need to follow up with Dr Verghese in the future as he may be a great source of future ASMR videos. Look out for future posts of this type. The Stanford Medicine playlist is here:
I continue to harry this list with demands for ASMR perfection and so at intervals one or more videos drop from this list to the “playlist of Hades” (I mean the Procrastination Pen Archive list):
I keep them here in case I have demoted one of your favourites and you make a reasoned argument why I should restore it to Heaven’s glory (I mean the overall playlist.)
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 have a restful sleep listening to the playlist. If you do why not subscribe to the blog (even I don’t know what is coming up next and it would be a shame to miss it wouldn’t it).
I Hope to see you again back here for the next blog article.
Having a bad day at work? Just want it to be over? Despair that you’ll ever chill enough to actually get any real sleep tonight? Welcome to The Procrastination Pen. Here the finest in inadvertent ASMR material is reviewed at intervals. Even better there is an ever-growing playlist of curated items for your delectation. And if after all that you’re still plotting ways to murder the boss in an undetectable fashion, at least you’ll get to listen to a relaxing video whilst you are doing it.
Today we have a video from a channel dedicated to health. Nothing could be more medical than that I am thinking and therefore any ASMR effects must be purely down to chance. So far so much the aim of this sequence of blog posts.
The notes are helpful, which we often do not find: “Jessica Nishikawa demonstrates some of the techniques of the Lung and Thorax assessment.”.
We know who the professional is before we start. Comments are turned off which is a breath of fresh air after some of the nasty stuff that you sometimes see.
We start with Jessica Nishikawa DNP, FNP-BC. DNP appears to be Doctor of Nursing Practice. FNP-BC is Family Nurse Practitioner – Board Certification
Unless you follow nursing, you, like I, may not have been aware these qualifications existed.
Suffice to say a highly qualified person then, but this is not why we are here.
The background hiss which we have heard often before is present here as well. Initially I thought I was going to exclude this video from the Procrastination Pen playlist, but it soon settles down to be less obtrusive than in some of the videos I have reviewed of late.
The “patient” is McConnaugh (probably nothing like the spelling). A quick search of YouTube determines that McConnaugh appears elsewhere such that he might crop up in a future blog post.
At intervals Jessica looks off video to her right. I’m not sure if there is a person there or if she has notes about what she wishes to cover. However, you’re likely to be listening rather than watching, so it is unlikely to affect you.
This is moderately good – no Hollie Berry but still worthy of a place in the playlist I think.
The channel BilderbackHealth surprisingly has only eight videos (including the above one), so we can comfortably cover this off in one blog post.
The majority of the videos feature Jessica – there’s a couple that look like they are not going to be on theme including one on Log Cabins so it might be that six is the total we’re going to be looking at today.
It is great to have a medical video from a medical facility (not someone’s front room) and for the noise of air conditioning to be absent. Having got used to background noises of late, it is fantastic what a difference silence makes. I may be weeding some of the more air condition-y (new technical term) videos from the playlist going forwards.
The presentation is lovely and quiet. Positively gentle at intervals.
Definitely a Procrastination Pen playlist member I think
The Cardio Vascular / Peripheral Vascular Exam Video.mov
McConnaugh is the “patient” again
JVP – Jugular venous pressure – used to diagnose types of heart and lung disease.
Thrill – a vibration felt whilst palpating a blood vessel.
This remains consistent with the first video we looked at.
I’m not sure if this is bias but the videos featuring Miley sound to me moderately more-gentle than those featuring McConnaugh. In any case this one is consistent with the HEENT video featured previously.
Connie is the “patient” here – somebody new. Interesting that cranial nerve one is generally not tested and yet how many of these videos have we seen in which people test coffee or even alcohol to verify that this nerve is functional (its function is for smell perception).
This is a bit more of an instructive tone than the ones that have gone before. However, it is probably indicative of the consistency of this set of videos that I even bring this up. Usually in a group of videos that I review we are lucky to have one or possibly two videos included in the playlist. In this case we very likely will include the majority of them. We have not seen that since Dr James Gill.
Chris is the patient this time (I’m a bit more comfortable with that spelling)
The best demonstration of abduction and adduction I’ve seen so far.
I’ve watched a number of these and have just realised that Jessica does her nursing in a set of high-heeled shoes, I have pity for her poor feet and respect for her endurance standing on her feet all day in those shoes.
Anyway, this will probably be the last time I actually watch the video (listening being the more usual approach) so this will be of no concern to me (and likely to you either).
I love the pronunciation of buttocks probably the first time I have heard it pronounced that way.
Another video the equal of the ones we have seen in this post previously.
It’s worth noting that Jessica has her own channel, which given the nature of these videos is very likely going to be the subject of an upcoming blog post.
The guitar music is good, but in other respects this is just not the quality of those that have gone before. This is not going to be in the Procrastination Pen playlist.
It also goes all funky subsequently which is just not conducive to great relaxation. (Entertaining though I’m sure it is).
Funky music from the outset, charming images but that isn’t why we are here. This is a poor fit for the Procrastination Pen playlist.
In general, an excellent set of videos and the largest consistent set of videos for the Procrastination Pen playlist we have seen in a while. This gives me more ammunition for ongoing weeding activity to perfect that playlist.
The Bilderback Health 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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We came across Michael Koller in a previous blog post.
At the time I pointed out that he had a page dedicated to videos i.e. this one.
So far I have not tried reviewing videos which have been linked to from a web page. This is a venture into the unknown. It is not possible to add them into a playlist so this entire blog post will buck the trend of all previous blog posts on ASMR and ASMR-related videos.
The organisation of the page is impeccable, a series of links in a table. I’d guess that they are designed for education purposes.
The first video is:
Head to Toe: Male; Dr Michael Koller
There is a link to the main video entitled “Complete Video”. The video has also been divided into four parts (I’m not sure what the point of that is).
There is also a link called “Text”, this turns out to be a fourteen-page checklist. Students have a much greater memory than I have if they can memorise and utilise all of that.
The quality doesn’t improve just because they are a component of the main video above. These are also quite loud for what we want.
If the tone was a bit quieter, then these might have been ideal.
I was considering asking Dr Michael Koller if he would permit me to upload the videos to YouTube so that they could be enjoyed in the normal way. However sadly he has died so I am unable to do that. As such I cannot upload them to YouTube and therefore, I cannot add them to the Procrastination Pen playlist.
I very much suspect that this is a lost branch of a website which will one day be rediscovered by the Stritch school of medicine and taken down.
For that reason, if you want to see the videos, now is probably the time to do that.
Head to Toe: Female; Dr Michael Koller
For these the only videos available are the Part1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 videos rather than a complete video.
Parts 1, 2 and 3 are secured by a Stritch logon leaving only part 4 for us to see. There is no associated text file as there is for the Head-to-Toe Male video. The reason is not obvious.
This video is much better than any of the Head-to-Toe Male videos in that it is substantially quieter. If this video was on YouTube, it would be in the playlist. I suspect that one cannot just take other people’s videos and upload them to YouTube so I’m sorry for ASMR video fans out there who would like this to be in the Procrastination Pen playlist.
In contrast to the above this video does not come in parts -only the complete video is available. In addition, the above video does not have a “Text” link but for this video a link to the text file is provided.
The text file is four pages long and is again a checklist to go with the video.
At least the music used to start this is gentle, a bit of classic guitar music. Dr Koller introduces Nancy Grecko (assuming that is how you spell that).
The sound for the video is not great – a constant background noise. It is as if the sound track had been lifted from an ancient cassette tape. We have heard background noise like this before.
Given the track is not on YouTube it will not be in a playlist, however I may have considered it if it had been.
I have made an email request to a general contact address at Stritch to see if permission will be granted for me to upload these videos to YouTube. Assuming permission is granted I will upload the videos to my channel in the future and create a playlist as I would normally do. If no such list appears you can assume no such permission was given.
At intervals there are brief snatches of narration which do not have the background noise and this is distracting in that the noise is only emphasised as a consequence.
Thorax; Dr Michael Koller
There is an associated text file, which is again a four-page checklist. There is a bit of a theme developing.
The complete video has funky start music (thanks but no thanks). The background noise is still there but just less pronounced than with the “Head and Neck” Video.
Dr Koller refers to this being a composite video composed of videos that are found elsewhere – my apologies if you notice some overlap (I have not done so).
This is a reasonable video. It is not truly quiet, but it could be said to be quite calm and methodical, not as good as Dr James Gill however.
Part way through, though, Dr Koller starts whacking a tambour which cannot be said to be properly restful.
The outro indicates the “patient” was Thad, assuming that is how you spell that.
A review of the “part” videos indicates that, as expected, they replicate the content of the complete video.
Pulmonary; Dr Michael Koller
Having established with reasonable assurance what the expected behaviour is i.e., the “part” videos are just bits of the complete video, I’m going to limit myself to reviewing the complete video in each case.
We are back to the classical guitar music approach to video introductions although it seems to be a bit louder than before, the inter-video volume problem reasserting itself
Dr Koller and Thad appear again. (Apologies to Thad if I am misspelling your name, happy to correct this if you let me know).
The sound is strange like there is a slight metallic tone to the voice (as if the microphone was inside a metal box). Thankfully we lack that awful background noise in this video though.
There is a set of breathing sounds on the track but (to me) these were not excessively loud and did not distract from the track in anyway. Your mileage may vary.
Again, we see the definition of egophony which we have seen before.
Heart; Dr Michael Koller
The obligatory text file (which I think we can assume now is a checklist) and the complete video supplemented with 2 “part” videos.
The complete video starts with the classical guitar music again (a bit loud this time). This video still features Dr Koller and Thad. Again, we have a slightly metallic edge to the sound.
This is very much of the quality of the previous video.
Towards the end there are various heart beat sounds but I did not find then distracting. You may have a different reaction.
Abdomen; Dr Michael Koller
This video begins with far-too-loud start music, no restful guitar music this time. It has the metallic sounding vocal track, Dr Koller and Thad as we have heard in previous videos. This really needs a better microphone, I think. If it wasn’t for this aggravating metallic echo I think this would have been quite a good video.
This is the last Dr Michael Koller video on the site. However, there are a lot more videos with other participants.
I’ll return here in a future blog post to review the others assuming the page stays up.
Sadly, I have not created a playlist this time (I may get permission to create one in the future from Stritch perhaps).
The overall playlist of videos covered so far in this blog is here:
The archive playlist (videos which were in the overall playlist but after repeated playings it turns out that was a mistake) is here:
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 them restful
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If you’ve been following the blog for a while, I am hopeful that you have quite a lot of material to make your night hours more restful.
I’m still continuing with the medical examination theme because it appears to have been an effective one. However, I realise that having a playlist of ASMR videos that stays focused on the same subject might be dull, so I am open to new ideas. Indeed, I may explore a few side avenues independently.
If you’re new to the blog well, welcome. The idea is that I keep finding new videos that may have some ASMR effects. So far, predominantly videos which were not created for their ASMR effects but were devised for another purpose. This has mostly been videos covering some variety of medical examination.
These unintentional ASMR videos may produce ASMR effects (assuming you are a person who is lucky enough to feel such effects) or they may just be restful enough to gentle you off to sleep. Either way I hope that they are of use to you and I am open to suggestions if there is other material which you have found effective.
Today we are exploring more material in terms of eye examination. We have covered this area before with Moran Core where we encountered Megan, who had a very good ASMR voice (but got somewhat limited air time).
Today’s video is this one:
HEINE Direct Ophthalmoscopy — How to perform Ophthalmoscopy
This is very different in that it is an out-and-out instruction video. It is distinguished for our purposes in that the narrator has an excellent voice. It is a very calming voice and unlike material we have recently seen it is not afflicted by horrendous background noise.
This strikes me as a great one to keep in the playlist for this blog (if you want to see that playlist scroll to the end of this article).
As is usual for articles in this blog, when I find one video which has potential ASMR effects I take a chance to explore the channel in which it is found.
Here we have the channel HEINE Optotechnik. This channel has one hundred and twelve videos as at the date I’m looking at it. Even with superman fingers I do not think I will be doing a blog post on that many videos.
The standard approach I have adopted in these circumstances is to look for a playlist. I have assumed up to ten videos is enough without you losing the will to live.
There are twenty playlists in this channel with contents ranging from four to seventeen videos.
Our video (above) appears in a playlist entitled How-To: Opthalmology (indeed, it is the last video in that playlist).
The other two are:
HEINE Indirect Ophthalmoscopy — The Binocular Indirect Ophthalmoscope (Part 1)
This has exactly the same narrator as our first video. Looking at the comments it appears that there are none at all from the ASMR community (well they have not made themselves known in any case). It is possibly not a popular category with them.
I think however that this is a relaxing video – not a Dr James Gill standard but good enough for the Procrastination Pen playlist.
The notes inform us that the narrator is a Mr Brian Little, sadly that is not a rare enough name for me to determine whether he has narrated any other material which might be of interest to us.
The next (and last from this playlist) video is this:
HEINE Indirect Ophthalmoscopy — The Binocular Indirect Ophthalmoscope (Part 2)
There are over four thousand subscribers, so this is no passing fancy of a channel. It is very likely a channel to which I will return in future blog items.
This is unusual for an item on this blog, in that all of the videos reviewed deserve membership in the Procrastination Pen playlist of ASMR videos.
The overall playlist of videos covered so far in this blog is here:
The archive playlist (videos which were in the overall playlist but after repeated playings it turns out that was a mistake) is here:
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 them restful
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