Your popliteal pulse is one of several places on your body where you can easily check your heart rate. The location of the popliteal pulse is the soft spots behind your knees. ‌Your popliteal ...

The popliteal pulse is one of the pulses you can detect in your body, specifically in the portion of your leg behind your knee. The pulse here is from blood flow to the popliteal artery ...

Figure 2 Palpation of the Common Femoral Pulse. With the patient’s knee slightly flexed and relaxed in your hands, palpate the popliteal pulse, which is not always readily palpable. It is ...

The popliteal artery is palpable (i.e. detectable by hand). People are able to find it and use it to count a pulse in the back of the knee. If the knees are slightly flexed — to about 45 degrees ...

The pain is interfering with his ability to perform his job. He has a normal right femoral pulse and a diminished right popliteal pulse; the right ankle and foot pulses are absent. How should this ...

Popliteal artery entrapment syndrome can be easily missed but is indicated when provocative testing at the bedside results in diminished pedal pulses during active plantar flexion and passive ...

place both hands around the knee and feel in the popliteal space. Slowly lift the knee until it is about 90°. If you cannot detect a pulse, then stop at that point. Feel the skin temperature over ...

Popliteal artery entrapment syndrome (PAES) is a rare condition affecting the artery in the back of the knee. It causes pain in the lower legs during exercise. The popliteal artery runs behind the ...