Video Demonstrating Muscle Clenching / Squating

[flop]

Here's a link to a video made by a Dutch doctor who specialises in treating syncope (fainting). He uses a patient to show how different counter manoeuvres (muscle clenching, squatting) help to raise BP - you can actually see the patient's BP change on the beat-to-beat BP monitor!

I am a member of a UK charity called STARS (Syncope Trust And Reflex Anoxic Seizures - The Blackout Charity)

Link to STARS page on managing syncope - scroll down for video link

Professor Wouter Wieling, Academic Medical Centre, University of Amsterdam and member of STARS Medical Advisory Committee highlights the importance of Counter Manoeuvres for patients with syncope.

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Edited - the link doesn't seem to be working at the moment, I'll e-mail STARS and ask them to fix it.

[erik]

As a temporary workaround, depending on your browser settings and what media viewer you tend to use, this alternate link may or may not work in the mean time:

mms://haanstra-wm.ic.uva.nl/avc/amc/interne_geneeskunde/bloeddruk-eng.wmv?MSWMExt=.asf

Very handy demo.

For some reason I'm not a leg crosser usually. When it hits, it hits suddenly and I'm in the "squat" immediately. It is the reason I end up having to talk to total strangers about things some times... depending on when it strikes. One isn't likely to be very articulate at that moment, so letting people know that everything is ok can be challenging!

[flop]

Erik, thanks for finding the alternative link - I'll put it in this post as an active link.

Alternative link to video

This film is helpful because it shows how to do the muscle clenching techniques (not like one news article I found that talked about this but showed "leg crossing" as someone sat in a chair with their legs crossed!!). It also shows exactly how much her BP improves with the different techniques - the change when she squats is amazing!

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[scarfgirl]

Alternate link isn't working for me either

[Guest tearose]

I went to the link that Erik posted and it worked.

Thanks!

Good little clip.

I've been using these methods for years.

WARNING: It does attract some odd looks when in a store on line and suddenly you are squatting on the floor!

[erik]

Here's an alternate that might work automatically for a few folks (this stuff will vary based on browsers & settings & such).

If that doesn't work, try "copy & paste" of the first alternate link, the one starting with "mms://haanstra...." which is a very "raw" link and where the video technically "resides". Unfortunately the forum alters the first alternate link when it is embedded and clickable (since it is an "mms" rather than "http" link) which breaks it. Anyway, it can work for some by pasting it into your browser or directly into something like Windows Media Player or VLC if you have that.

The reason this is tricky is that it is a streaming video. It seems like the original site maybe forgot to set the "Content-Type" properly... or similar trouble. Hopefully, the original site will fix their issue but in the mean time jumping through some extra hoops can work in some cases, perhaps not all.

+++ He he he. You're right, the squat can be suspicious! It also takes practice to get out of since the transition to upright has to be made very cautiously! I've also just gone all the way to the floor and pretended to be "doing something useful" like taking notes! If you carry a camelbak at most times as I do, or just a backpack or other bag, you can fiddle with that and look less conspicuous! Or maybe just "bust a move" after you get your bearings if you feel like it

Edited December 15, 2009 by Erik