Five different ways to check your pulse
Way 1: The boring, regular method
Just slightly push with your finger the part of your arm just below the wrist. Feel around and you will eventually find your pulse. (This never works for me, but it must for everyone else.)
Way 2: A little more ‘pizzaz’
Put your hand on your heart. You can feel vibrations.
Way 3: Lesser known
Locate your neck. (
) Press the tip of your forefinger into the off-center left side of it. You should feel a pulse.
Way 4: Almost totally unknown
Sit down on a hard wooden chair. Put your arm underneath your leg and push your leg down on it. Hard. You should be able to feel a soft pulse. Kinda’ like the first method.
Way 5: Just discovered recently by me
I think I discovered it, so I don’t even know if it works for anyone else. Take your left ring finger, and scratch the part above where that finger joins the other one. Now squeeze where you scratched, and you *should* feel a relatively strong pulse. This is uncanny. It works better than all of the other methods for me. (:?:
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purple triangle!
EMTs use wrist (next to the inner wrist bone, on the inner upper arm (just under the bicep), hand on the chest, the carotid artery (located on the neck), and one last one located on the foot (next to the large tendon on the big toe).