MEDICAL
HEART AND PERICARDIUM
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pedal
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popliteal
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femoral
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radial
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Detailed explanation-1: -The popliteal pulse is named after your popliteal artery. This is an important blood vessel that carries blood down through your leg to your feet. So the location of your popliteal pulse is behind your knee.
Detailed explanation-2: -The posterior tibial pulse can be felt behind and below the medial malleolus. Gently flex the knee and feel for the popliteal pulse by deep palpation in midline in popliteal fossa.
Detailed explanation-3: -The popliteal fossa is a diamond-shaped depression located posterior to the knee joint. Important nerves and vessels pass from the thigh to the leg by traversing through this fossa. These include the two terminal branches of the sciatic nerve, the popliteal vessels and short saphenous vein.