Something in the world of floating have you stumped?
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Sometimes you have customers with very specific needs or concerns about their float. In the case of medical concerns in regards to floating, there’s a lot we don’t know. Always always always have your customers discuss any serious medical concerns with their doctor. If for no other reason, if something does go wrong, even if it’s completely unrelated to their float, you’re not on the hook and have to deal with it.
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Graham: Today’s question is also here with us recording, and it is, “Do you have any information regards to clients with a pacemaker or defibrillator? Is it safe for them to float? I wasn’t sure if you all had encountered this before.“
So, first of all, any kind of serious medical questions like this should be run by a doctor, which we are not.
Ashkahn: Yeah, there’s a big list of things we’re not, which you’ve maybe realized by listening to this podcast.
Graham: Lawyers, doctors …
Ashkahn: Psychiatrists…
Graham: Good podcasters…
Ashkahn: Decent humans in general. But yeah, them also, yeah, definitely not doctors is the thing we’re not today.
Graham: That said, there seems to be no real problems with it that we’ve been able to find.
Ashkahn: Yeah, I can’t think of what … Unless you somehow got salt in your blood and it went into your pacemaker and screwed up the electronics.
Graham: Yeah, kinda the biggest concern that I’ve heard is in relation to, people who have pacemakers often are taking other cardiac medications or things that affect their blood pressure, and there could be something with that, entering into deep relaxation and blood pressure problems, so I’d almost be more concerned about the paired medications than the pacemaker itself.
Ashkahn: Yeah, definitely one of those doctor questions. And this is what I would say, were a customer to ask me this at the float center, I’d be like, “Oh, man, you should definitely check with your doctor about that. I can’t give you an answer.”
Graham: Yeah.
Ashkahn: “I just run a float tank center.”
Graham: For sure. And again, that said, I have a feeling the doctor would come back and say that it’s probably not a problem. I’d also say, definitely ask the doctor about contraindications with any other medications that you’re taking along with this, and again, we’ve heard from several float centers that they’ve floated people with pacemakers, they’ve never had any issues with them. In general, it wouldn’t be high on my priority list, but no reason to dodge the-
Ashkahn: Yeah, if anything, floating seems to be better for your cardiovascular system.
Graham: Yeah, but just like pregnancy, no reason to skip the whole doctor recommendation. It’s just, what if something did go wrong, and someone were to come after you, just sounds like such a awful situation. Way better to punt it over to the medical professionals.
Ashkahn: Yeah.
Graham: So, I think that’s short episode day.
Ashkahn: I guess that’s it, man. We’re not doctors, so you asked the wrong person this question.
Graham: So if you have any more medical questions to send our way, it’ll be really easy episodes. We can just kinda rehash through this exact same thing. And you can do that at floattanksolutions.com/podcast.
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