But by working with the communities, the two groups arrived at a solution appropriate to the cultural context: performing the injections on wrists or forearms, instead of the usual place on the upper arm.
The funny bone sensation is when you actually hit the ulnar nerve, which is pretty superficial right here as it comes around the medial epicondyle of your upper arm bone.
Most of the time, blood pressure is taken in the brachial artery in your upper arm, because if the pressure is high there, it's probably high throughout all of the arteries.
A couple of questions, a pointed inquiry about allergies, then I wiped his upper arm with alcohol, and drew into a syringe 0.5ml of clear fluid from the glass vial.