I came to this one largely because everyone else seemed to be saying this was great for ASMR. (See some of the comments beneath this video). I have to say it’s a bit marginal for me and I am considering discounting it from the playlist.
However, given how much feedback there seems to be, I am sharing it with you as it is probable you will get some positive effect from it. Carol Joy features as the person giving treatment and we are told that she is an “Integrative Medicine nurse”. I’m not really abreast of nursing specialities however a brief search indicates it to be “A state of well-being in mind, body and spirit that reflects the individual, community and population.”
Acupressure for Family and Friends
As I say Carol’s voice is not quite right for me but a number of people find this video helpful. In this Carol refers to SEVA – an act of selfless service.
UMMCVideos is the channel. This turns out to be the University of Maryland Medical Center – the downside for a brief blog item is that there are really a very large number of videos in here. There are also no less than seventy four playlists as at today’s date. It looks like we need to focus in a different way, in this case I think focusing on Carol Joy is an approach.
The comments really exalt Carol’s ability to be properly relaxing. But for some reason her voice does not do this for me. I have no idea why. The ingredients are there – it’s quiet, there is no background noise, I would imagine I should be off to sleep. In fact, I find myself looking for the next video.
I’m sure a great many people reading this will have a more positive reaction and this is why I am featuring it.
Guided Meditation – A Step by Step Video
Again, the comments are very positive. The sort of comments some of the videos I have featured so far I felt deserved rather than the nastiness that they actually got. However, it just doesn’t work for me.
On that basis I have created a Carol Joy playlist, which is here:
But I won’t be updating the overall Procrastination Pen playlist
However, the Archive playlist (created of videos that I featured in the blog but on review felt were not quite good enough to make the grade) now contains these three videos.
I hope that you find the playlists relaxing.
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This time the video is more of an instruction manual. Merck Manuals is the channel which gives you a clue.
This is a comprehensive channel with a large number of videos which I am not going to attempt to count. It is about two hundred and ten as at today’s date.
That leaves a dilemma as to which set of videos to choose. Fortunately Merck Manuals also provide a set of playlists (twenty two of these as at today’s date) and ours occurs in a playlist called The Ortho Exam – Merck Manual Professional Version.
This channel has so much material I suspect we will be back here before I am very much older.
Today’s video is this one:
How to Examine the Hand | Merck Manual Professional Version
The Ortho Exam – Merck Manual Professional Version
Which helpfully tells us “Examination demonstrated by Paul Liebert, MD, Tomah Memorial Hospital.”
The funky intro music is not exactly brilliant for ASMR however the narrator has a great voice for this purpose. It is nicely relaxing in fact.
This one belongs in the Procrastination Pen playlist.
There are ten videos in the Ortho Exam – Merck Manual Professional Version playlist. This number is a bit large for a blog post (well history tells me anyway). If you can’t wait for the playlist, scroll right to the end where it will be waiting for you. The above is video four in this playlist, leaving nine videos.
How to Examine the Shoulder | Merck Manual Professional Version
The great thing with these videos is that they are consistent, demonstrated by the same person, narrated by the same person and consistently calm and quiet. They are more-or-less ideal for our purposes.
Note that erythema comes up in this video which is a redness of the skin.
This is also going to find a home in the playlist.
How to Examine the Elbow | Merck Manual Professional Version
Epicondyle is a bit more complex – here it is referring to the rounded part of the bone on the elbow.
Definitely a playlist candidate.
How to Examine the Wrist | Merck Manual Professional Version
There is a growing amount of medical terminology the more we go on with these videos. Those with more of an interest than simply a sleep aid may find this helpful:
How to Examine the Hand | Merck Manual Professional Version
This is where we came in. By now we can see that not only do we have the same intro music, same examiner and same narrator to a large extent we also have the same “patient”. I like consistency when I’m aiming for a restful experience – your mileage may vary.
How to Examine the Hip | Merck Manual Professional Version
This one seems to be considerably quieter which might be distracting, especially if you have the volume right down in order to aid sleep. On balance I think it still deserves inclusion in the playlist though.
How to Examine the Knee | Merck Manual Professional Version
What strikes me with this one is the complexity of the system. The number of nerves, ligaments, muscles and tendons needed just to get normal motion is quite amazing and something I hadn’t considered before. Probably not wise to be thinking that as you’re trying to doze off. This will also be in the playlist.
How to Examine the Ankle | Merck Manual Professional Version
The close-up shots and the distant shots here seem to be of two different patients. The close-up ones I would guess are of a male patient. (In at least some of the shots in any case). However, if you’re half asleep I suspect you will not notice.
How to Examine the Foot | Merck Manual Professional Version
Our male foot patient is back initially, we go to the female patient subsequently. The only downside of such videos (if you’re awake enough to notice) is that you can start to consider if you have any of the problems described. Who doesn’t have uneven wear in their footwear for instance?
How to Examine the Neck | Merck Manual Professional Version
This refers to other manuals videos. Given how consistent this set is I think this is an invitation we can’t help but take up at some future date in any case. Another one for the playlist then.
This one is a confessed cheat. Where to find an ASMR video? Well why not choose a channel dedicated to ASMR? However, if anyone watching this can identify the original source of this video, I would be very grateful – perhaps I’ll follow up with a further article to show the original video unadulterated by editing.
Hand and Wrist Examination (ASMR)
In fact this might be a way forwards for me as I have been trying to stick to the more po-faced approach of avoiding those videos dedicated to ASMR and trying instead to find ASMR videos by choosing a subject area – i.e. accidental ASMR videos. But hey, why not get a leg up from the work other people are doing in this area.
I notice it is entitled “ROM and MMT”. Here ROM is Range of Motion, MMT is Manual Muscle Testing.
This perhaps will give me a new category of ASMR videos to search for in the future.
Trace is the “patient” and Jane the medical professional. Judging by Jane’s T-shirt design she is working in Occupational Therapy. However, the entwined snake emblem (Caduceus it appears to be called) is widely used it seems (from a Google image search), so this does not reliably tell me where she works.
Jane has a pretty good voice in terms of ASMR and Trace does not get a lot to say. The surroundings are not typically medical, I would guess someone’s front room. It was uploaded six years ago, but potentially it is older than that. Presumably this video was once on a medical channel and has been snaffled and probably edited to enhance the ASMR effect.
I would make a guess that the two know each other and that potentially this is a student video used for assessment. (There are a large number of these and I guarantee some will appear in future blog items).
Not unexpectedly, ASMR exams – for that is the channel we are dealing with – has a great range of videos. Because the channel owner has done all the work for me, in general the videos are excellent for ASMR.
Twenty six videos as at today’s date ranging in posting date from nine years ago to five years ago. (Which is sad as it looks like the channel is no longer maintained).
It would not be the first time I choose to blog about an item that is now thoroughly out of date.
There is one playlist on the site:
This features only six of the twenty-six videos for some reason, and all seem to have been posted nine years ago. It does not include my chosen video above. You get that as a bonus-extra on this occasion.
This gives me a nice shortlist of videos to cover in one blog post. However, given the other content is good, I will make a point of following on with the remaining twenty (probably spread over a few blog posts to avoid those articles getting too long).
Apologies for the sequential nature of these articles.
I suspect you’re keen to get to the playlist – in which case scroll to the end and there you will find it.
Physical Examination #2 (ASMR)
Fans of this blog should be familiar with this one. It has had an entire article dedicated to it and it is already in the playlist.
Physical Examination #3 (ASMR)
The title at the start of the video is “Abdominal Examination” there is no indication of the originating channel.
The participants are Dr Thomas and Mr Jones the “patient” apparently. It gives on screen prompts to indicate which stage the examination has entered. Dr Thomas’ voice is good: lovely and quiet. No Vicki Scott but great anyway. Both characters could easily be of Welsh extraction (I’m not great at accents) but there is no other clue as to which institution this is.
The abdominal exam looks positively painful but Mr Jones seems completely unfazed by it. It is all very calm.
Strangely at 5:48 it suddenly changes to “Cardiovascular Examination” and Dr Thomas introduces himself to Mr Jones again. Then at 12:18 it becomes “Respiratory System Examination” and Dr Thomas introduces himself to Mr Jones again.
This is the sort of video I dislike – one that was several distinct videos edited together to make one long one.
This is a shame because Dr Thomas has an excellent voice but it’s right down there with ASMR loop videos for distraction – it will not be in the playlist.
I wish I could find the original, separate, videos as they would be of a quality that I would definitely include in the playlist.
Physical Examination #4 (ASMR)
The video quality is not marvellous. In fact, I think I could describe it as fuzzy.
The intro states it is health assessment 3310. The closest I can find is NSG 3310. This seems to have been offered through an institution called Troy University.
There is a channel for Troy University and it has a great number of videos (read too many to count right now). Checking if there are 3310 assessment videos for Troy University we get a list (for example
and
) but I was unable to find this one.
The “patient” is Luke. Presumably students watching this would know who the medical professional was here. At nearly forty-five minutes this is another lengthy exam video, they must be covering every angle.
The voice here is marginal in ASMR terms (I’ve probably been spoiled by Hollie Berry).
Still it is good enough for inclusion in the playlist. (Perhaps it will be one that falls victim to a future weeding process).
Another term I was not clear about prior to this is “Auscultate” – listening to sounds from the chest.
Associated with this is the term “egophony” this is the use of the E sound. If the E is heard to sound like an A then it is diagnostic.
“Stereognosis” the ability to perceive what a solid object is without actually looking at it.
“Graphesthesia” recognising writing on the skin by touch only.
Luke seems about as entertained as a small child being asked to “stay still and stop making a noise”. I’m sure he went on to develop a fantastic medical career but he certainly isn’t keen here. Possibly because this is being recorded on a Sunday and he could be out relaxing and having a good time.
Barack Obama is the president so we know this was recorded between 2009 and 2017.
Twenty-five and a half minutes so a more usual length. This time we get an introduction which tells us it is the Northeastern Physician Assistant Program 2010.
Where we get the same video but in three parts – this looks like it is going to be one featured in a future blog post
Out of interest the three videos are:
and
I will cover these properly in a future blog post.
This means that this one must be a compilation
Initially it is entitled “The General Physical Examination”. It is going well until the clunking sounds of the weighing scales which are designed to awaken the dead. After that though it calms down a reasonable amount. The medical professional and the “patient” in this seem to be having a lot of fun making the video. I am guessing it is educational in intent.
I’m guessing Rebecca did the exam and for our purposes she has a very good voice. If the video is a compilation this is invisible so it can go into the playlist.
Physical Examination #6 (ASMR)
This one starts with an intro stating “Stritch School of Medicine IPM Physical Exam Series Head to Toe Examination on a Male”
The only one that references Stritch appears to be this one:
Entertaining I’m sure but zero on the ASMR scale.
So how does our video size up?
Dr Michael Koller – searching for him indicates that he has a page of original videos which will be worthy of a future blog post perhaps.
John is the “patient” here. Dr Koller does not at first seem to have your classic ASMR voice. This improves as the examination commences. Although he isn’t going to be a James Gill. The video at just over forty minutes is getting on the long side. It is also on the fuzzy side so we are to be thankful it is the sound that we are focused on. It’s good enough I think so I’m going to add it to the playlist.
Yes I know that there are only five videos here – for some reason YouTube informs me that one of the six videos in this playlist is hidden. I’m still not clear why this is.
I’ll split up the remaining twenty and post them in the next few blog posts.
The playlist for ASMR Exams is here:
The playlist covering all videos featured in blog posts thus far is here:
It may be possible to identify the source organisations for some of these videos, in which case I may do some follow up articles delving more deeply into them.
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