Pulse rate may differ between pulse positions?

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Hi Phil -

 

I absolutely agree with you. My teacher, Dr. John Shen, always felt

the pulse while looking at his watch that was laying on the desk next

to the patient's wrist, and Dr. Shen is recognized as one of the most

competent pulse masters of the last century. I have had student

interns often comment that the patient's right pulse is more rapid

than their left pulse. I think that this may be the intern's

perception, and it's probably more the intern's attempt to describe a

quality, rather than the actual rate - which, if measured against a

second-hand on a watch would be identical on each wrist and in each

position, because it reflects the heart/pulse rate.

 

Ray Rubio, D.A.O.M.

President/CEO ABORM

 

Westlake Complementary Medicine

900 Hampshire Road, Suite B/C

Westlake Village, CA 91361

Phone: (805) 497-1335

Fax: (805) 497-1336

email: rtoo

 

 

On Feb 22, 2008, at 10:44 AM, wrote:

 

> Hi All,

>

> I am confused about this:

> > " I'm thinking that perhaps this opens up the possibility that

> there is

> > a value to counting breaths per beat because taking longer to

> access,

> > it allows the subjective element to have the possibility of one

> > perceiving a faster pulse, therefore heat, in one position as

> opposed

> > to another. "

>

> I was taught that HEART rate = PULSE rate. Therefore, I cannot

> understand

> how pulse rate (in any specific time) could differ from one pulse-

> position to

> another.

>

> An exception (of course) would be if an artery were fully blocked.

> In that

> case, no pulse would be felt distal to the block.

>

> Am I missing something?

>

> Best regards,

>

>

>