The dorsel pedal artery runs down the middle of the top of the foot. These may be hard to find on yourself, because you have to bend your leg to feel your foot. Try trading pulse-feeling with a friend.
And yes, poor circulation may make these pulses harder to feel, or decrease them altogether. Pulse?: A pulse is something felt by palpation. A doppler, which is a machine that "listens" to blood flow, can't get a pulse but can produce a signal that tells us flow is present. An occluded fem-pop bypass will almost certainly have no pedal pulse but the patient may continue to have a pedal signal found on doppler.
pedal pulse, could you still get a pedal pulse with a doppler with an occluded ... A member asked: If i lay on my back and put my legs vertically in the air my pedal pulse becomes visible and i can feel it strongly in my right foot. the feeling and visible pulsing go away when i lower my legs. it doesn't happen in left foot. should i be concerned?
pedal pulse, A doctor has provided 1 answer Two other students said they could feel his pedal pulse. I couldn't and we were running out of time. One more student went after me and said he could palpate it. The surgeon on call that Saturday palpated and couldn't feel it either--we got the Doppler and he didn't have adequate flow for a palpable pulse. So, if you don't feel it, you may be ... If i lay on my back and put my legs vertically in the air my pedal pulse becomes visible and i can feel it strongly in my right foot.
the feeling and visible pulsing go away when i lower my legs. it doesn't happen in left foot. should i be concerned? Could you still get a pedal pulse with a doppler with an occluded femoral-popliteal artery graft?
