Tag: Unintentional ASMR

Sleeping With ASMR

If you have got to that time of life where you cannot remember the last time you had a decent night’s sleep and your daily consciousness is about walking around in a fog, you are in the right place.

For some little while now, the Procrastination Pen has been compiling a playlist of videos designed to be relaxing and to lull you off to sleep. If the bedroom has become a warzone with wakefulness, at the very least, you can lie there and listen to the videos rather than worrying about the sleep you’re not getting.

Today’s video comes from a source that we have seen before. It is from an institution that most people must be aware of.

It is this:

Demonstration of Teaching the Reflex Exam by Dr. Abraham Verghese (Stanford 25 Skills Symposium)

and like most professional videos we have covered, it comes with notes:

“27 Apr 2016  Skills Symposium – 2015

Founder and leader of the Stanford Medicine 25, and best-selling author, Dr. Abraham Verghese demonstrates how he teaches the reflex exam on a real patient in front of an audience of clinical educators.

On September 28th & 29th, 2015, the Stanford Medicine 25 team hosted the first annual bedside exam symposium for clinicians and educators. The purpose was to share how we do bedside teaching and allow them to improve upon their bedside exam skills.

Learn more about past and upcoming symposiums on the bedside exam:

http://stanfordmedicine25.stanford.ed…

Visit the Stanford Medicine 25:

Website: http://stanfordmedicine25.stanford.edu/

Blog: http://stanford25blog.stanford.edu/

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/StanfordMedic…

Twitter: https://twitter.com/StanfordMed25

Google+: http://goo.gl/UBM7SP”

Dr Verghese it appears is some kind of powerhouse of the medical profession.

However, we are more concerned with whether he produces a great relaxing video.

It starts with the inevitable music, but fortunately, this is short and not excessively loud. Dr Verghese has a calm sounding voice but the video is a presentation so he isn’t completely quiet here.

The video has the benefit of being an interesting one as well, perhaps it will prove to be a distraction from your concerns about insomnia.

This is a definite candidate for the Procrastination Pen playlist I think.

It is from the channel Stanford Medicine 25, this channel has eighty-five videos and so a few if we were looking to review them all (perhaps that will happen with time but not all in this one post).

Our video is found in the playlist Skills Symposium – 2015

Normally this would therefore be the subject of our blog post. However there are seventeen videos in this playlist and given it is a symposium, some of those videos are rather long.

I think therefore we will focus on presentations from this symposium that feature Dr Verghese. This is a subset of the videos in this playlist. However, I suspect we will return to the others in the future.

Purpose and History of the Stanford 25 by Dr. Abraham Verghese (Stanford 25 Skills Symposium)

The same music, a similar start up format. So far, so expected for a professional video.

Dr Verghese remains excellent in this. Sadly, for us it is a bit more interactive with laughter at intervals, for example. I’ll include it in the Procrastination Pen playlist for now (as you know this list gets reviewed constantly, and those videos which turn out not to be relaxing enough after extensive exposure get archived from this list).

An extract from the notes is as follows: “27 Apr 2016  Skills Symposium – 2015

Founder and leader of the Stanford Medicine 25, and best-selling author, Dr. Abraham Verghese talks at the opening of the Skills Symposium about the purpose and history of the Stanford Medicine 25.”

Why are We Doing this Teaching? – Dr. Abraham Verghese (Stanford 25 Skills Symposium)

“Founder and leader of the Stanford Medicine 25, and best-selling author, Dr. Abraham Verghese talks why we’re doing this bedside exam teaching.”

A different but equally unwelcome start up jingle. However, Dr Verghese remains consistent in having a great voice. Although at just over one minute you are not getting a lot of it.

The 5-Minute Bedside Moment – Dr. Abraham Verghese (Stanford Skills Symposium)

“Founder and leader of the Stanford Medicine 25, and best-selling author, Dr. Abraham Verghese talks about the 5-Minute Bedside Moment: our tool for teaching the physical exam at the bedside.”

He might be talking about the five minute bedside moment but he is taking two and three quarter minutes to do so.

Start-up music tick, notes, tick, same presentation tick. This consistency is such an asset when one video of a series is a good one (less good if it is a bad one). In this case these have all been good videos in terms of delivery and I shall be looking out for Dr Verghese videos in the future.

That is it for this time, thank-you for reading and I hope you get a restful night’s sleep.

The Stanford Medicine 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.

Until next time.

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Sleeping With ASMR

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

Author: David Meyer, MD

Date: 3/08/2017

From Moran CORE Collection: http://morancore.utah.edu”

David tells us that Moran is located in Salt Lake City.

The technical content is quite a bit beyond me I have to say so in this case I found it best to allow it to wash over me.

Definitions:

Phoropter: an instrument for evaluating vision

Axis: position of astigmatism in the eyes

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.)

Meet David Meyer, OD, FAAO

Notice that now we are on a new channel

John A. Moran Eye Center

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

Author: David Meyer, MD

Date: 03/08/2017

From Moran CORE Collection: http://morancore.utah.edu”

Definitions:

K reading: measurement of corneal curvature.

Diopter: focusing strength of a lens.

Over refraction: even when wearing the lens, the patient will still have some focusing issues left – this is a measure of those remaining issues.

Fluorescein: stain used to diagnose eye conditions.

Another good one for the Procrastination Pen playlist, I think.

Corneal Topography in Keratoconus and Contact Lens

Back on form, David is certainly turning out to be reasonably consistent for our purposes.

The notes are: “8 Feb 2018

Title:  Corneal Topography in Keratoconus and Contact Lens

Author: David Meyer, MD

Date: 3/08/2017

From Moran CORE Collection: http://morancore.utah.edu”

Definition:

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.

Until next time.

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Sleeping With ASMR

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:

Muscle Palpation – Upper Extremity (Shoulder, Arm, Forearm, Wrist, Hand) ASMR

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

Muscle Palpation – Upper Extremity (Shoulder, Arm, Forearm, Wrist, Hand)

Deltoid

Supraspinatus

Infraspinatus

Subscapularis

Teres Minor

Teres Major

Biceps Brachii

Coracobrachialis

Brachialis

Brachioradialis

Triceps Brachii

Extensor Carpi Radialis Longus & Extensor Carpi Radialis Brevis

Extensor Digitorum

Extensor Digiti Minimi

Extensor Carpi Ulnaris

Abductor Pollicis Longus

Anconeus

Extensor Indicis

Extensor Pollicis Longus & Extensor Pollicis Brevis

Pronator Teres

Supinator

Flexor Carpi Radialis

Flexor Carpi Ulnaris

Flexor Digitorum Profundus

Flexor Digitorum Superficialis

Flexor Pollicis Longus

Palmaris Longus

Pronator Quadratus

Abductor Digiti Minimi

Abductor Pollicis Brevis

Adductor Pollicis

Flexor Digiti Minimi (Manus)

Flexor Pollicis Brevis

Lumbricals (Manus)

Opponens Digiti Minimi

Opponens Pollicis

Palmar Interossei & Dorsal Interossei”

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.

If you liked this blog article why not follow this blog.

Until next time.

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Sleeping With ASMR

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:

Rachel Bridges

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

If you liked this blog article why not follow this blog.

Until next time.

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Sleeping With ASMR

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.

Jessica’s video does not seem to be in there.

UDUB is apparently a shortening for the University of Washington to those in the know.

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.

A nice short playlist is this one:

which is titled

Medical ASMR – Male Nurse/Doctor with Male Patient

Ostensibly consisting of four videos but two of these are listed as hidden. We have seen this before but I am no closer to explaining it.

So that leaves us with two videos to look at (the first video with Jessica in it is not part of this playlist).

Fit and Evaluation of GP Contact Lens Unintentional ASMR

Dr David Meyer and we are back at the Moran Eye Centre. We covered a subset of the Moran Eye Centre videos previously.

However not this one or the one after this. However, I think a return to Moran is indicated when we can cover these videos in their natural home

Which for this one is here:

Prescription & Fit a Contact Lens Unintentional ASMR

This is also on Moran CORE it is here:

with the above video I will cover this one in a future review of the video in its proper home.

The ASMR Sandwich breath playlist on the Procrastination Pen is here:

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

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

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

The playlist of videos requiring age verification is here:

I can’t be bothered to stop my listening experience to log on, this interrupts the process. 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.

Until next time.

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Sleeping With ASMR

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:

“13 Dec 2011 Clinical Examinations

A second more detailed video can be found at; http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/msce…

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.

More Clinical Examination materials can be found at; http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/msce…”

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).

The channel is: University of Leicester and at this rate it is likely to become a thoroughgoing favourite on this blog (along with the University of Warwick).

Sadly, it has in excess of 1300 videos. Trawling that lot for the odd additional one is likely to take longer than is sensibly available.

I think falling back on the searching of YouTube for more videos featuring Dr Richard Abbott is a valid approach in this case.

It turns out that this search reveals some ASMR channels have now adopted this video as their very own for example here:

Unintentional ASMR – University of Leicester Exams (without Walkthroughs)

which is on a channel:

Princess Eev [ASMR]

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.

There are notes again: “30 Apr 2012 Clinical Examinations

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.

Until next time.

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Sleeping With ASMR

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:

The Procrastination Pen overall 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.

Until next time.

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Sleeping With ASMR

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 Lung and Thorax Exam

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.

The HEENT Exam Video.mov

The “patient” is Miley (the spelling may well be incorrect).

HEENT head, eyes, ears, nose, and throat.

Sclera the white of the eye.

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.

The Abdominal Exam Video.mov

Miley returns as the “patient”.

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.

The Neurological Exam

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.

The Musculo Skeletal Exam

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.

Hand Hygiene

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).

Outside Log Cabins 1.16.21 with Jamie O’Brien and friends

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.

If you liked this blog item why not subscribe to this blog.

Until next time.

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Sleeping With ASMR

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 “Complete Video” link is to this video

https://vault.lumc.edu/videos/videojump.cfm?hd=1&ID=BF738033-A33B-4485-BB64-D1EA41DA0C73

the quality doesn’t seem to be great and it duplicates one that we’ve already seen on YouTube so not really worthy of additional review

The “part” videos are as follows:

https://vault.lumc.edu/videos/videojump.cfm?hd=1&ID=CC577FB7-1AC2-4F94-A378-726E60ED48D9
https://vault.lumc.edu/videos/videojump.cfm?hd=1&ID=CACF20C8-9029-4CB3-A3BF-FBFF8B24B259
https://vault.lumc.edu/videos/videojump.cfm?hd=1&ID=C063B402-0B69-4EF8-8F01-5B2C2DF81062
https://vault.lumc.edu/videos/videojump.cfm?hd=1&ID=2C87865E-268E-449F-8B4A-3387936DC6E6

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.

https://vault.lumc.edu/videos/videojump.cfm?hd=1&ID=8B72BEC6-895D-41FC-B762-38DFA47E5121

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.

Head and Neck; Dr Michael Koller

https://vault.lumc.edu/videos/videojump.cfm?hd=1&ID=89C34E15-DC2A-40FD-AAF2-6221B3E19EC5

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.

This time there is a complete video

https://vault.lumc.edu/videos/videojump.cfm?hd=1&ID=F015545E-1879-46B6-B402-F389825ACB95

and two “part” videos

https://vault.lumc.edu/videos/videojump.cfm?hd=1&ID=F1DBD183-D5D0-4713-AF6C-098E76C2DB1D
https://vault.lumc.edu/videos/videojump.cfm?hd=1&ID=12AE3142-6A52-4F1D-A067-2F98F5B62AD2

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 “IPM1” in the intro this now seems to redirect to “Patient Centred Medicine 1”. I’m not clear what the Original Acronym was for although it does still form part of the URL in some cases like here: https://www.stritch.luc.edu/lumen/meded/ipm/ipm1/geninfo.htm

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.

In this case there is a text file as before, as expected it is a checklist – this time three pages long. I think we’ve probably satisfied our curiosity about the checklists now and we can cease to review them. The complete video is here http://stritch.luc.edu/templates/videojump.cfm?hd=1&ID=F6FD6842-E2D0-46EF-8A56-1CF6D17BE36F

The two “part” videos are http://stritch.luc.edu/templates/videojump.cfm?hd=1&ID=DEA8DD0B-6C75-4FF9-B53C-8784425AA7FF and http://stritch.luc.edu/templates/videojump.cfm?hd=1&ID=75C0B723-E226-43DC-BEB4-B04050DD47D5

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.

Complete: http://stritch.luc.edu/templates/videojump.cfm?hd=1&ID=A04A60F2-B7F4-46B1-9512-3075A42A99E2

Part 1: http://stritch.luc.edu/templates/videojump.cfm?hd=1&ID=04E8B771-92D5-405F-97CA-796A9295DAEF

Part 2: http://stritch.luc.edu/templates/videojump.cfm?hd=1&ID=128F2A83-7ECB-43E2-8F33-32DA6F6C3F36

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.

Atrial fibrillation – an irregular heartbeat.

Mediastinum an area between the lungs

Epigastrium upper central region of the abdomen

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.

Complete: http://stritch.luc.edu/templates/videojump.cfm?hd=1&ID=36FFE14E-6DDE-4186-93F5-17E239D611DB

Part 1: http://stritch.luc.edu/templates/videojump.cfm?hd=1&ID=9A6B1293-A7AC-4BE1-B5F0-882773806144

Part 2: http://stritch.luc.edu/templates/videojump.cfm?hd=1&ID=32693A4A-A3E7-4EA1-B2E7-53B8AD91DA63

Part 3: http://stritch.luc.edu/templates/videojump.cfm?hd=1&ID=F1A2F47E-302F-4A18-AC24-45C935050300

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

If you liked this article why not subscribe to this blog.

Until next time.

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Sleeping With ASMR

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 playlist for HEINE is here:

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

If you liked this article why not subscribe to this blog.

Until next time.

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