Hi, I'm Dr. Evan Matthews
I'm here at the montclair State University's Exercise Science lab and I'm going to show you how to use a very simple
sort of at home style
Automatic blood pressure cuff. This is a cuff from Omron. Which is one of the
major companies that produces these kind of machines, and it's very very simple to use.
If you have one of these systems that you're trying to use
At home or in a lab somewhere it probably varies a little bit from this, but they all
Function pretty much the same so this particular one has some instructions on the inside of that cuff
And you should always follow whatever instructions are on the machine you're using but for this one
it tells us to put this Tube that's coming off the cuff sort of
Over top of where the brachial artery is in the arm
Which is on the inside of the arm between the bicep and the tricep so there's a little groove in there
That's where you want. This Tube to line up with
So I'm going to take this we've got a Velcro strap to it and this particular model has
a hard coil in there
Which is why?
I'm not able to open this up anymore at least not without breaking it so I'm going to slide my arm
Inside of that coil just kind of like a big ring, and it'll stretch a little bit as it slides up and again
I want this to to be
Right on that groove between my bicep and my tricep on the inside of my arm, and so once I have it there
I'm just going to take this strap
Bring it around
Relatively tightly you don't have to make it super tight, but it has to be tight enough where if you put your arm down?
It's not going to slide off easily all right, so put it on
Make sure it stays lined up after you've put on tightly and for this model
All we do is we hit the start button and it will start taking a measurement
So make sure when you're taking measurements that you aren't talking like I'm doing right now
you don't want to be doing that and make sure that your source is seated in a chair or laying down a
nice comfortable bed, or
some sort of recliner type chair and
that your back is well supported and your feet are flat on the ground your legs aren't crossed and
Make sure you're just trying to relax breathe normally and just sort of don't think for a minute or so it usually takes
30 seconds to a minute for one of these costs taken one reading
Alright, so that was it that was one reading right there
So these costs are super easy to use
fairly inexpensive, this was a more expensive one, but they can come down to
Thirty Forty Dollars easily
and
they are fairly actress, so
comparing these to
Somebody listening to a blood pressure who's actually doing it based on sort of textbook technique
They're going to be fairly similar. This is probably going to give you a slightly higher systolic blood pressure and a slightly
lower diastolic blood pressure
Simply because the microphone that's in the cuff is going to be more sensitive than a typical person to ear is going to be
But otherwise it is going to give you a fairly accurate reading
So system like this is not going to be accurate if the person is moving around a lot so it's not so good during exercise
And so that is one of the major reasons
Why you still need to be able to take a manual blood pressure?
measurements, especially if you're an exercise science student or somebody in the exercise field
Alright, so I hope that helped Super easy
Relatively inexpensive definitely recommend for anybody who wants to learn more about their own?
Physiology to have something like this at home or somebody who?
Just needs to be washing their blood pressure more regularly if you have any questions about
How this unit works I can try my best to answer them if you want to put a comment down below or you can send
Me an email either one works all right so come back for another video and hope see you soon nice