MEDICAL PHYSIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Your pulse is the rate your heart beats. It is also called your heart rate. To find your pulse without a heartrate monitor or watch, gently place your index and middle fingers on the artery located on the inner wrist of either arm, below your thumb. You should feel a pulsing or tapping against your fingers.

Detailed explanation-2: -Your pulse is usually called your heart rate, which is the number of times your heart beats each minute (bpm). But the rhythm and strength of the heartbeat can also be noted, as well as whether the blood vessel feels hard or soft.

Detailed explanation-3: -The arterial pulse is a measurement of the heart’s contraction rate because a pulse wave is created when the left ventricle contracts. The arteries expand in response to this contraction and increase in volume.

Detailed explanation-4: -As we have said, the blood is not being pushed back by the heart and so it has Low Pressure and fairly smooth Flow when you are lying down at rest. It is for these 2 reasons that veins do not Pulsate – which is why you can’t feel a pulse in the veins – only in the arteries.