Trouble checking pulse

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I have trouble checking where my pulse is in my wrist and in my neck. I can't seem to find it. I know it sounds silly, but could somoene tell me what I am doign wrong?
 
buy a heart rate monitor!
 
ok... practice when at rest.. if you are trying to do it when you have stopped running say... it is hard if you are not good at it... I think I am and sometimes I cant get it when I'm all wet and breathing hard...

ok... if you are right handed... (Otherwise switch it)...

use your ring finger on your right hand...

hold your left hand up in front of you so you are looking at your wrist as if you were about to shake someone's hand... relax your hand and wrist... you should have a tendon that runs from your thumb past your wrist... it is really prominent on my arm...... but if you put your ring finger on your wrist... right below that you should feel your pulse. don't use the tip of your finger ... use the pad... (the finger print part... between the center of the finger pad... and the tip)...

you may have to move up and down the wrist (closer and farther from elbow)... to find it... once you have it... you can put the middle finger down and it can pick up the pulse too...

Supposidly if you use the index finger you can pick up a "false" pulse...

ok on the neck... use your right hand... use both... ring and middle finger... put your fingers on the adams apple area but all the way up to the bottom of the chin... move to the left of the trachea/adams apple... press just a bit... feel pulse... no... keep moving around towards the back... and you will find it... follow it up the neck ... and towards the back of your jaw... figure out where it is in relation to your jaw... for a reference point...

when I am really breathing after a run... I usually use the neck one... so I can have my left wrist turned over to look at my watch.. ;-)

Hope that helps...
 
Yep the radial artery is just medial to the radial bone in the wrist.

Its more accurate though if you use the neck method as its closer to the heart.

And are you sure its the index finger, i thought it was the thumb with the false one because of its own independent arterial supply
 
matt... I think you are right about the thumb... but my mom is a nurse and that is what she told me... don't use the index finger... but you still see people do it...

for fun check this out...
 
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