I'm the one they come running to, but they take for granted everything I do.
When it hurts real bad, they're knocking down my door, and I'll tape, tape, tape until I can't tape no more.
She, I'm the first to arrive, and the last one to leave.
On the track and field, they holler for first aid, for football stars who get too hot.
Whether you're a professional athletic trainer or a part-time recreational league coach,
athletic taping and wrapping skills are essential to preventing and treating sports injuries.
What you have just seen is someone practicing those skills at a very high level.
Speed like this is a result of taking the time to learn the proper techniques,
then years and years of practice to perfect them.
I'm Jim Clover. I teach athletic training skills at the University of California, Riverside,
Riverside Community College, and the Regional Occupational Program.
I'm also the coordinator at the sport clinic here in Riverside.
Together with Kramer Products, one of the country's leading suppliers of sports medicine and training products,
we'll put together today a video that will help you walk through this.
I'll try to acquaint you with both the art and the science of athletic taping and wrapping skills.
We'll start with a basic introduction.
This will include materials that you'll need and how to tear and apply tape.
Then we will run through nearly 50 different taping and wrapping applications,
covering practically the entire body.
I'll move through these techniques rather quickly, but that's okay.
To really learn the most simplest procedure, you'll have to rerun this video many times.
After you have watched the procedure several times, go ahead and try it with a friend.
Concentrate on the accuracy and neatness.
Accuracy means the procedure has a good shot at stabilizing the muscles or joint like they should be.
And neatness means that the tape or wrap job will be comfortable and won't come loose during play.
Above all, don't get frustrated. Even the great ones were all thumbs when they started.
One of the first things that you will notice is it takes a lot more than simple athletic tape
to properly tape and wrap the modern athlete.
There are specialty products to protect the skin, to help the tape stick better,
or even remove the tape after practice or a game.
Depending upon the size of the athlete, the body part being taped or wrapped,
there are even specialty tapes and wraps.
I realize that many of you won't have access to all these products.
But that's okay, because most of the procedures will work just fine with a few basic products.
But remember, the comfort and the safety of the athlete is our primary concern.
So make sure that you have the right products and knowledge to guarantee that.
For the purpose of this video, I'm going to show you how a professional athletic trainer
would do this with a complete assortment of Kramer products.
To prepare the skin for taping or wrapping,
Kramer makes a variety of products to protect the skin from cuts and blisters
and to help anchor the tape or wrap.
First, spray the area with tape adherent like Kramer Tough Skin.
This product leaves a tacky film on the skin to help hold tapes and wraps in place.
Kramer QDA is another tape adherent that is a little lighter and dries a little faster.
Heel and lace pads are positioned in areas where the danger of friction is present
or in areas where the tape might cut the athlete.
Skin lube is used with heel and lace pads to protect the skin.
Once the tape adherent and heel and lace pads are in place,
cover the area with tape under wrap or pre-wrap.
Thin foam is essential if the athlete has not shaved the area
or when the area is taped frequently.
Once the area has been prepped, you are ready to apply tape.
The basic athletic tape is an inch and a half, white cotton athletic tape,
like Kramer's ProForm Plus.
It also comes in one inch for fingers and toes
and in a two inch width for larger joint taping or for larger athletes.
During the course of this video, you're going to see me use a lot of elastic tape
on areas where muscles need to expand and contract or where joints need to flex.
Elastic tape is essentially a stretchy fabric with adhesive on it.
Kramer makes two different varieties.
Kramer Stretch Tape is a very stretchy and easy to tear.
Kramer Super Stretch Tape is much stronger and very difficult to tear.
Both stretch and super stretch come in two and three inch widths.
Throughout the video, I'll be using these elastic tapes pretty much interchangeably.
Many of the procedures I'll show you don't require elastic tape.
They are just improved by it.
But rule of thumb, if you want the athlete to be able to expand
or contract a muscle or flex a joint, don't try to tape without it.
Another basic tool of the athletic trainer is the elastic wrap.
These wraps help prevent swelling by providing compression
after a sprain, strain, or deep bruise.
They are used where some expansion or flexibility is desired.
Elastic wraps come in two, three, four, and six inch widths
and are generally about five yards long.
Some four and six inch wraps are double length for larger athletes.
Self-adhering bandages like Coflex are gaining popularity.
That's because the fabric sticks to itself without the needs of clips or tape.
Coflex is extremely useful in binding on cold packs
because it provides compression as it holds the pack in place.
It also is useful in holding wound dressings securely in place.
After practice or after a game, the athlete wants to get out of the tape
as rapidly as possible.
You can either use the standard bandage scissors like these
or Kramer has devised some special tools.
The zip cutter is inexpensive and has a covered blade
to rapidly remove the tape.
The shark has a longer nose and a larger blade.
To cut the tape off more rapidly, both instruments work even better
with a little skin lube on the tip.
Once the tape is gone, clean the skin with liquid tape remover
to remove the tape adhesive or the tape adherent.
Or if you don't want to cut the tape off, spray it with Kramer adhesive
and wait a few minutes for the tape adhesive to loosen.
Everything should peel right off then.
Now some important safety tips about tape.
Always check the extremities like fingers and toes on either side of the tape job.
If they stay white after you pinch them, the tape has hindered the circulation.
Remove it and start over.
If the athlete complains about a tape job, pinching, binding,
or creating a pressure point, pay attention.
It is better to re-tape the athlete than to cause a blister or a cut
that will cause the athlete to stay out of action.
And now some important safety tips about elastic wraps.
Always wrap towards the heart to help prevent circulation problems.
Never leave elastic wraps on overnight.
This poses the risk of nerve damage or possible loss of circulation.
Preparation for taping.
If I have somebody that just sprayed an ankle or a knee or whatever,
we're going to go ahead and have them shave the area.
For demonstrations today, we're going to go ahead and let him have his hair.
What we're going to do right off the get-go,
we're going to spray it with some QDA or tough skin.
This will help to have the tape stick.
In those high-friction areas, wherever they may be,
we're going to put down a little skin loop on a healer lace pad
and put them in those two areas.
This is followed by some pre-wrap.
This is an example.
We want to have as much of this area as possible covered.
This will help to protect the skin.
One of the things that you may want to do is at the very top,
you want to go ahead and put a piece of tape down here,
and that will help to secure this whole tape job.
Tearing the tape.
Tearing the tape to a lot of people looks like it's one of the easiest things
we as athletic trainers do, but it is without question a skill.
Some of the things that right off the bat that you want to be able to do
or do for yourself is wash off any kind of lotions
or grease that you may have on your hands,
and if your hands are wet, get them dry.
Now, once we have the tape here,
some things that are going to turn you into not being very good at this
is if you have a crimp at the edge,
then there is no way that you're going to be able to tear that stuff.
What we want to do is make sure that we have a good, clean edge,
and then we want to split the tape.
We want to go up here and split the tape.
If I come halfway down through the tape here
and I try to pull it here, it's not going to happen,
so I want to be able to get up here at the top and split the tape.
Now, one of the ways that we came up with that helps you out
is that we get a roll of tape like this,
and I already, with some scissors or whatever,
and I've made some tears in it already.
And what happens with this, this starts to get you a flow going.
So in other words, we go up here to the tear, each one of these tears,
and it's already started, and this will get you some success in your tape,
and then we can go right on to the next thing that we have to do.
Proper body positioning.
This is for myself as the athletic trainer,
and it's also going to be for the athlete.
One of the things that I, as a trainer, run into a lot of problems,
if I come up to an athletic team and I've got to tape 30 ankles,
and I'm taping off of a bench,
I'm going to destroy my back or whatever is left of me.
What I want to do is I want to find a table that is about this height for me.
I'm 6'2", depending on your height,
and also I want to make sure the athlete is comfortable in this scenario.
So in other words, when I'm going through my taping procedures here,
that I'm comfortable and I'm going to be able to last the entire taping time.
Removal of tape.
There are a couple of different ways to cut the tape off.
One is that you can use the scissors like I have here,
or you can use a thing called the shark.
And the shark has a blade inside of it,
and this is what I'm going to give the athlete,
and he'll go ahead and find a channel to cut right along.
The other thing that's real helpful is if I go ahead and take a little skin loop
and dab on the end and give it to the athlete,
and show him the channel that I want him to shoot at,
and let him go for it.
Real simple, real easy to do.
Taping the wrists.
The supplies we'll be using are tough skin, pre-wrap, an inch and a half athletic tape.
So now we have the wrists.
I'm going to have the person comfortable like we spoke about before,
and I'm going to have him kind of leaning toward me.
This will enable me to make sure this hand doesn't move around.
Once again, we'll start off with the QDA,
and this will help prepare the area with the tape.
Then we'll use the pre-wrap,
and we'll start with the bottom and kind of roll on up.
What this does is it gives a little bit of protection for the wrist itself,
but this is more or less another way how we're going to have success
in going to the next step of our taping skills here today.
So we go what I call a low C, middle C, and high C,
and this will all make sense to you, and then we'll just wrap on up to the top.
Once again, let me walk you through this real quick.
It's a low C, middle C, high C.
You make sure it's flat on the back, and you flow with the tape,
and that's how we're going to start.
Now, taping shin splints, we'll be using tough skin, pre-wrap,
inch-and-a-half athletic tape, 3-eighths, or half-inch felt.
I also want you to be able to pay attention on the backside here
where the Achilles is when we tape today
as far as making sure that this is flat.
Now, to start off with, we're going to say that the athlete
has some shin splints here on the lateral side,
so we're going to go ahead and put a little bit of felt on that side
and go ahead and have the athlete kind of hold on to this thing right here.
Then we're going to take our tough skin and put around the area,
like what we do with all these things, and hit all the spots.
Start at the bottom, and then we're going to walk on up with the pre-wrap
to the base of the calf or the gastrocnemius.
Now, once we have here, if I have paint on the lateral side here or the outside,
we're going to go ahead and take the tape, and as you can see,
make sure it's flat on the back, and then we're going to pull it inside,
and then we're going to overlap about halfway air-free time.
Get that overlap going here.
Same idea, we'll overlap, and then we get our angles up.
These are what I call high Cs, and the reason for that is it's like a C going up
as compared to low C, middle C, high C.
Come on up to the top, to the base of the calf,
make sure that we have the bottom all connected here,
and that's a basic shin-split tape job.
Wrapping the ankle with reusable wraps, we'll be using inch-and-a-half cloth wrap
and inch-and-a-half athletic tape.
Okay, what we're going to do is we're going to go ahead and take some cloth wrap here,
and what this does is this will kind of move around with the body,
but what we're going to use it for here is mainly to get down some of the skills
and angles of the tape job.
So if we go to the ankle here, we're going to start up at the top,
we're going to go completely around, and now this is where we're going to start talking
about the angles that we need for the first time.
I like to call it the arch Achilles, and this is known as a heel lock.
So we're going to come around the arch, and then back around the Achilles.
So as long as you can remember, arch Achilles, and make sure it's flat on the back
will be good through this scenario.
And then we'll come back up on the top again, and then we'll go back around the arch,
and Achilles again, and we'll give it a little tug on the outside there.
We'll come up around again, and then we'll do what is known as a half figure eight,
or a figure eight.
We'll come around the arch, and then back up on the top, wrap it around,
and then we'll get our inch and a half tape, and we'll secure it.
And then if you want, you can go ahead and follow it with the tape itself.
Same idea, come up and around arch Achilles, and then clean it up for the top.
Basket weave, ankle taping, you'll need tough skin, pre-wrap,
heel and lace pads, and inch and a half athletic tape.
Like in all the tape jobs before, we're going to put some QDA on this time.
In those high friction areas in the front and the back,
we're going to put some heel and lace pads with a little bit of skin loop.
Put those babies down there.
Then we're going to start with the back, the bottom of the foot here with some pre-wrap,
and just kind of give it a nice tug, but not too tight of a tug,
and just kind of wrap everything up here.
If you have some areas that are showing, it's not death-defying,
we'll just go ahead and clean it all the way up here to the base of the calf.
Okay, we lay that down.
Then we're going to go ahead and make sure our pre-wrap is down.
We're going to put down two tie-downs, and once again, this is the angle.
We have that high C angle.
This is where everything is going to start and finish.
Then we'll do another one here at the bottom,
and now we're going to go ahead and start the ankle tape job.
We'll start on the medial side, right behind the malleolus.
It's real important we go straight down.
Then we'll bring it up on the outside or the lateral side and give it a little tug.
Flatten that tape down nice, and then we'll come around and do what I call a low C.
Make sure it's flat on the back and come back up on the other side and bring it in.
Then we'll come over another one and overlap it ever so slight, about halfway.
Come around the outside lateral side, give it a little tug, pull it down, flatten it down,
and then we'll do our middle C. Make sure it's flat on the back,
because if I don't have this flat on the back, we're going to go ahead and cut this person.
We don't want to do that. We're here to help him out.
Then we overlap it again, pull it up on the lateral side,
follow the tape wherever the tape wants to go, and this is our last one here.
Now we'll go ahead, and that will prevent the inversion ankle sprain.
Now we'll do a half figure eight starting at the bottom.
Make sure it's flat and then bring it around the top.
We'll do one more here, half figure eight around the top, and now we come into the heel locks.
Start at the top, come around the arch, behind the Achilles, and we'll go ahead and tear it for right now.
Do the same thing on the lateral side.
Go around the arch, behind the Achilles, and then pull it up.
Then once we have it to this scenario, we'll go ahead and do the low C, middle C,
and we'll close it up and send him home.
There you go, ankle taping variations.
We're going to look at some different ways and methods to tape tape.
Once again, the supplies are always going to be the same for the ankle.
We're going to go ahead and put some QDA spray on it,
and then we're going to do the heel and lace pads as we did before, followed by the pre-wrap.
Make sure that we pretty much cover up the ankle itself, come up to the base of the calf,
and now this is one that we'll use that the athlete comes in daily, and it's more or less a protective one.
We'll do our two tie-downs at the top with the high C.
We'll pull it down on the outside, straight down, pull up on the lateral side, overlap it a little bit.
The difference here is that we're not going every other one.
Same idea, pull it up, follow the tape wherever the tape wants to go.
Then we'll go ahead and do the low C, pointing down, flat on the back, around on top, middle C,
high C. This is just a little quicker way to do it.
We come up and do a half figure eight on the bottom, follow the tape wherever the tape wants to go.
It will direct you. Do one more, flatten it down nice, pull the tape up.
Then we'll go into our heel locks, come up and around, up on top.
Do one on the other side. We'll do one each way.
One of the biggest skills I can tell you right now is when I'm doing a heel lock, this is just for your own knowledge,
is that when I come around on the bottom, I don't want to come here and then turn it.
I want to start my turn here and then up and around.
Then we'll go ahead and clean it on up to the top.
A lot of athletes may ask for one more around the bottom,
and we'll go ahead because that's what we're here for, is to make those people happy.
Ankle taping for the youth. What you're going to find is there are many different sized athletes.
There's the big offensive lineman, and then there's the small high school kid or even a smaller youth athlete.
What we're going to look at here are some of the differences that we'll run into.
We'll do the same thing, have the same supplies we did before.
We'll use the QDA, followed by a little heel and lace pad on the back and the front, followed by some pre-wrap.
We'll go ahead, and it's a little tougher because the foot's not as big,
but for all you coaches with the youth athletes, this works out just as good.
We do the same thing, go up the base of the calf.
This is where the differences may be.
Instead of putting two tie downs at the top, we'll go ahead and just put one.
On the side, we'll go ahead and just do maybe one or two, depending on the size of the foot.
If I have an offensive tackle here, we may put four or five of these things on,
depending on how big he is and probably where he's going to go to school.
Same idea here, pull up on the lateral side, and then here, we just do one easy one there.
As you can see, we're only going to maybe do two.
Go right into the half figure eight, nice and slow and under control.
We talk about a speedy tape jog, but there's absolutely nothing wrong with taking your time and getting things right.
Go around again, now we go into the heel lock.
Once again, it's arch, Achilles, follow the tape wherever the tape wants to go.
It will direct you.
Then we'll come up on the inside, do the same thing, arch, Achilles again, and then we'll close it up.
And that's our tape jog.
Let's start up ankle taping. We're going to add some support by splitting the struts with two-inch tape.
And what we're going to do first is we'll show you with two-inch tape.
And what I'm going to do is I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to split the tape right below the malleolus,
and I'm going to bring it around the front and the back.
And then I'm going to do the same thing on the lateral side,
except one difference is I'm going to be pulling a little bit to give this same some extra support right here.
Now, if available, I'm going to use two-inch super stretch tape.
And I'm going to do the same deal, except I'm going to take it out about here, cut my tape,
and then I'm going to split it right in the middle, start it with the scissors.
Once again, we'll pull it up on the lateral side, or the medial side, I'm sorry, and bring it around.
Start it there, and then we'll do the same exact thing on the lateral side.
And this is where most generally the ankle sprain is going to be.
So I'll take it here, and I'm pulling, and a little extra support, and it works real good.
Followed by that, we'll just go ahead and close the ankle taping job up, just like we would on anything else.
Ankle taping, extra support.
Okay, now we've got a kid that just sprained his ankle, and we want to get as much support as we possibly can.
So we'll take three-inch super stretch tape.
I'll go ahead and have the athlete hold that top, and I'm going to go ahead and pull this up on the lateral side
with all the gumption that I can, and we already have them pre-cut, and then we'll do another one.
Go ahead and take a hold on that, and pull up on the outside again.
Perfect. Flatten it down, go ahead and put a white tape around.
Also, you can take two-inch super stretch separately or together for added support.
And we'll do just like we did with the cloth wrap, we'll do arch, achilles, and around.
Same thing on the other side, arch, achilles, and around.
Come up on top, do a half-figure eight, bring it on up, and close it here.
And we got a bingo.
Ankle taping with a dorsal check ring.
What we're trying to accomplish here is it hurts the athlete to bring their foot down and play their flexion.
So what we have is we're going to come up with a check ring, and we'll use our super stretch tape.
And we'll split it at the top, and we'll last it around the top there, and we can make this as long as we want.
Split the tape, and then as you can see, we'll extend it here.
And so this helps to prevent that motion as far as the foot coming down.
And then we just go ahead and close it down on the top and the bottom.
And that will help to support that area a little bit better, too.
Ankle taping for compression after an injury.
We've had an athlete that has an injury.
We'll get some felt, and with the felt, we'll make a U shape right in the middle of it.
We'll put it on the outside and the inside of the ankle.
Both sides of the malleolus or ankle bone.
We'll have the athlete kind of hold on to the top.
We'll take the elastic wrap, and we'll start with the bottom of the foot.
We'll go towards the heart and just kind of last through it right around the whole ankle,
making sure that we cover up everything so that the edema or swelling has no place to come out.
Once we've done that, we'll go ahead and take our butterfly clips and secure the wrap itself.
And this can or cannot be followed with a little thing of tape.
There you go.
Ankle taping open basket weave.
The idea behind this, this is one of those ways that we can send the athlete home with some kind of support.
What we'll do, just like before, we'll go ahead and put some QDA on it.
We'll go put a little heel lace pad on just the back this time,
because we're not going to be so concerned with the front.
We'll take the pre-wrap, go around the foot, go around behind the back, secure it up.
Now this is where we're talking about an open basket weave.
We'll go ahead and start at the top.
We don't go all the way around.
Start here.
We're using two-inch tape here.
This is, once again, to show you that it works good, depending on the size of the athlete.
Start on the inside, pull up on the lateral side or the outside, give it a little tug, flatten it down.
Same idea.
Start on the inside.
Once again, we add a little bit of support here.
Pull it down, flatten it down.
We'll do one more.
Make sure that he's got good support to go home with.
One of the things we always make sure that people understand is that we want you to follow the tape wherever the tape wants to go.
Then we'll just go ahead and close it on the back the rest of the way down, making real sure it's flat on the back.
Now once we have it to this point here, we have a little bit of support.
We'll go ahead and take our stretch tape and we'll start at the bottom.
We'll just go ahead and move right up the ankle.
Here we did an arch achilles, a heel lock.
We did one on the other side just to show you it again.
We start with the arch, go around.
You'll find that the stretch tape is real easy to do as far as this.
We'll go ahead and close it up on the top.
The reason for this open basket weave is in case he starts to swell, you'll have some room to expand.
If we use just the regular white tape, he will not be able to do that.
Then we'll close it up.
Looks perfect.
Great toe taping.
We'll use some tough skin, some pre-wrap, inch or inch and a half for both athletic tape and some two inch elastic tape.
What we're trying to do here is we're trying to prevent motion, which you're going to do in most tape jobs.
If it hurts the athlete to bend his toe back, then we're going to put the tape on the bottom side with the foot a little bit relaxed.
If it hurts the other way, we'll do just the opposite.
For this job, we'll just put a little bit of pre-wrap at this spot of the foot.
Prior to this, I sprayed it with some QDA to get that adhering factor.
We'll use a tie down at the top with the inch tape.
Then we'll go ahead and start pulling the foot down.
One other thing we'll do is we'll go ahead and kind of hold on to that one there.
Make sure that this here is not too tight because when the foot steps down, it spreads out and it could cause pain.
We'll go ahead and pull here. This kind of depends on you as to how much strength this tape job will need.
Once we have to this point here, we'll go ahead and use the elastic tape and go around the foot here.
Go ahead and cut that, fold it over the top, and then lasso the toe in.
Making sure that it's not too tight and cutting off the circulation in that grand toe.
This helps to protect the toe from going this way.
Buddy taping for the toe, we'll be using quarter inch felt and inch athletic tape.
We'll go ahead and we'll spray it again with some QDA.
Then what we'll do is we'll take the felt and place it between the toes.
This is for if I spray in one of the toes at the joint line.
Once we've done that, we'll go ahead and we'll wrap the two toes together, making sure that they're secured.
Same idea, just take over two.
This will help to support the two toes.
Taping for the bunion, we'll use some one inch athletic tape and a two inch elastic tape.
What we're going to do, just like in all the tape jobs before, we'll put a little QDA down to begin with.
Followed by we'll put some pre-tape down just to make the athlete more comfortable just at the base here.
Followed by super stretch tape throughout this procedure.
This will be the area that we'll be able to tie down to.
We don't want it too tight because if it's too tight, then when he steps down, his foot will spread out.
Now we'll go ahead and take the two inch stretch tape that we already had.
We'll split it ever so slightly.
The idea behind this one is to pull the toe out.
When you have the bunion right here, this will help to relax it.
We'll split it at the bottom also.
We'll pull it right like this.
This will enable the athlete to get some comfort in this area.
This is followed by wrapping on the bottom.
Go ahead and cut this with a tie down at the top and the bottom with your regular white tape here.
We'll just run two strips at the bottom here also.
That's your bunion tape job.
Heel taping, we'll be using tough skin and one inch athletic tape.
What we're going to do here, we'll go ahead and spray with the QDA like I said.
And then we'll go ahead and the idea behind this is to protect the heel if we have a contusion or something.
We'll lay it on each side and we'll just overlap about halfway and just go all the way around the heel.
Pretty easy tape job.
Like with all tape jobs, what we want to do is one of the most important things that we can do and that is follow the tape.
Wherever the tape wants to go is where we're going to go.
And depending on the athlete's comfort, we can either do one or two layers for this tape job.
We'll just go over it twice, tie down at the top, follow the tape and we've got it.
Metatarsal arch taping, we'll be using tough skin, half or quarter inch felt and inch and a half athletic tape.
What we're going to do here, this is in case this arch here, the metatarsal arch starts to fall.
We'll take the felt, put it right smack dab in the middle of that.
Before we did this, we sprayed some QDA to help the pre-wrap stick.
We'll go ahead and put some pre-wrap around here.
At this point, we'll take some super stretch tape and bring this all around the foot.
We'll go ahead and make two, not to pull too tight because if we pull too tight when the person steps down, it will cause pain.
This can be followed by some inch and a half tape just on the top to close the procedure down.
This way when he steps down, that will support the metatarsal arch.
Inner longitudinal arch taping, we'll have some tough skin, heel and lace pads, inch or inch and a half athletic tape and two inch elastic.
What we're going to do here is we'll go ahead and spray the area with the QDA.
This will help to make sure the tape adheres.
We'll go ahead and in the middle part of the foot, we'll go ahead and put some pre-wrap down.
The foot, we're going to go ahead and tape it right to the foot.
The athlete's instructed to keep their foot back.
Then we'll go ahead and go from little toe to little toe after we put a spot right here where we're going to go to.
One of the things that you can do here is that you can go ahead and split this area too.
That enables the tape to go ahead and lay a little flatter.
Make sure that you don't pull it too tight at any time because once they step down, the foot will spread out.
We'll go ahead and start from little toe, keep your foot back, to little toe, go to great toe, great toe, start to fan out a little bit.
We'll do one more on the inside here, add a little extra support.
Slide down here.
Now what we're going to do is we're just going to start on the bottom here and we're going to support the medial arch with this also.
Pull it up here.
Pull it up, give it a little tag there.
This will help to support that arch.
Now we'll come along on the top side of it and we'll cover it up.
The reason for this, and we didn't do it at the same time once again, is because when the person steps down, the foot will spread and that can cause more pain and aggravation.
Plantar fasciitis taping. We'll be using tough skin, 3 inch mold skin, inch or inch and a half athletic tape, and 2 inch elastic tape.
We'll start the procedure again with a little QDA.
One of the things on any of these arch tapes, you can always take a heel and lace pad and fold it over and put it right on the medial arch.
That will also help to add some support in that area.
Now that we've done this, we'll go ahead and use an anchor strip at the front of the foot.
Still, once again, we can go ahead and split it.
This sometimes helps to go with the contour of the foot just a hair better.
Making sure that it's not too tight because remember when they step down, the foot spreads out.
Then we'll go ahead and put the mold skin on.
We'll start at the top and we'll pull it down.
This is for plantar fasciitis. The athlete will complain about pain right smack dab in the middle there.
We'll go ahead and we'll put two of these on.
Same idea.
And pull it up.
Now, just like before, we'll go ahead and put the inch and a half tape there.
Make sure it's flat.
Pull it up on the medial side.
And for this one, what we'll do is we'll go ahead and take the elastic tape and take it right around the foot.
Pulling a little tighter on the medial side and just laying it on the top and going around.
Followed by a cut and then anchoring that down with some inch and a half.
Basic arch support.
Go ahead and put some QDA or tough skin on it.
This is for the guy that has the inside arch that's starting to drop.
What I'll do is I'll go ahead and put a little heel and lace pad right there on the medial side of the foot.
This is followed by some pre-wrap.
Just go right around the foot.
Real easy procedure.
It gives them a lot of support.
Works real nice.
Make sure they keep their foot back.
We'll go ahead and lay it on the lateral side or the outside and we'll pull it up on the medial side.
Overlapping ever so slightly.
Laying on the outside, pulling up on the medial side all the way up here.
I found that if you have, give them a couple extra yanks here at the bottom.
It adds some more support where it's needed.
Once we've done that, we go ahead to the top and we dress it and we just lay the tape down on the top.
That's your arch.
Achilles tending taping, we use some tough skin, inch and a half athletic tape, two inch elastic tape, and some heel and lace pads.
For this procedure, what we're going to do is we're going to try to protect the Achilles back here.
In other words, they have a strain to the Achilles.
We'll let the foot drop a little bit and then we'll go ahead and put our heel and lace pads in the back, just like in an ankle tape job, followed by the pre-wrap.
For the pre-wrap, as always, we'll stick some QDA on there to make sure the tape sticks very well.
Take the pre-wrap on.
The pre-wrap works excellent for the athlete that gets taped on a daily basis.
We'll go ahead and do a tie down at the top.
Then we'll do a tie down here at the bottom.
Once we have it to this point, we'll go ahead and take our two inch elastic tape.
What I'm going to do is we'll go ahead and lay that elastic tape on there.
I'll go ahead and put the tape on there.
That will help to make sure that it's secure when I pull it up behind.
We'll pull it right up here like this and split it, bring it around to the top, and we'll do two of those.
We'll do another one here.
Go ahead and lay another piece of inch and a half tape.
This will help to secure it in the area.
We'll split the tape, take it up.
Same thing as before.
Now, once we come to this point, we can go ahead and take our super stretch tape
and just go ahead and go around the ankle itself to secure the procedure on the ankle, followed by two tie downs.
Nice job.
Knee taping, we'll have some tough skin, some pre-wrap, heel and lace pads,
inch and a half athletic tape, two or three inch elastic tape.
What we're looking at here is we're concerned about the athlete either straining or spraining in this situation,
spraining the inside ligaments.
What we're going to do is we're going to take tape down on both sides to support that area.
The first thing we're going to do is go ahead and spray the area with our QDA or tough skin.
Then I'm going to go ahead and give my athlete my scissors, and then he's going to help me out with this procedure.
I'm going to put heel and lace pads right behind here because this is one of those high friction areas.
We'll go ahead and cover the area from the mid calf or gastrocnemius, and we'll walk it right up the knee.
One of the things that you see is the knee is slightly bent.
The reason for this is that we put a cap underneath the heel, and this is in the position we want it to be in.
We'll go ahead and use our three inch super stretch tape.
Go ahead and cut that.
Do one at the top and then one at the bottom.
Now what we're going to do is we're going to help to support these ligaments, and the way that we'll do that is we'll start from the top,
and we'll cross it and we'll follow the ligament down.
We'll pull all the stretch out of the tape.
We pulled that one down, and now we're going to pull the next one up.
We'll go right beside the patella or kneecap, which is this area here, and we'll take the stretch out of the tape and pull it up.
We'll do one more, same idea.
We'll start on the top, pull the stretch out of the tape.
We'll help support the ligaments on the outside or lateral side.
Do the same thing, pull the tape tight.
Now we'll do the same thing on the inside or medial side.
Pull the stretch out of the tape.
Pull this on down.
Make sure it's secure.
Start from the bottom, pull it out right beside the kneecap.
Make sure it's up and tight.
Have this cross-action here.
You have to cut it.
We'll pull the tape down and tight.
One more, pull the tape up, have it cut.
This is followed by, we'll take our stretch tape, and we'll just encompass this tape job with the stretch tear tape.
We'll go up and around.
Make sure it's flat back there. One more down and around.
Go ahead and tear this, and we'll secure this with the inch and a half tape.
This is to support the ligaments in the knee.
Needs taping for hyperextension. What we'll do in this scenario is we'll put a lift underneath the heel to bring it up anywhere from one and a half to two inches.
This will get the knee bent properly.
We'll put the QDA, or the tough skin, all around the knee to help support the tape itself.
We'll start with the pre-wrap. We'll start at the bottom, and we'll circle right up the knee.
This is to protect the skin from that daily taping that we run into all the time.
We'll give the athlete the scissors, which he has.
Then we'll go ahead and do an anchor strip at the top.
Go ahead and cut it.
And we'll do another one at the bottom.
Now we have some pre-cut pieces of the three-inch.
What we'll do is go ahead and lay these right on the back of the tape job itself.
There's one there, and we'll secure it with our super stretch tape.
Making sure that he flexes his thigh when I go around.
We'll put one more in there.
Flex your thigh, and we'll bring this around.
Now what we'll do is we'll go ahead and pull this bottom down as far as we can go,
take some of the elastic out of the tape job itself, lay it flat.
We'll do it with the same with both of them.
Lay those flat, and then we'll secure that with the three-inch stretch tape.
And what we'll do to help with the support, we'll go ahead and lap this tape back up here,
and then hook it in there.
And this is how you tape for hyperextension.
We'll go ahead and cut the bottom here,
and then we'll secure it with inch-and-a-half athletic tape.
Knee taping for the patella tendon itself.
The patella tendon itself runs from the patella down to the tibia.
And what we're going to try to do here with the tape is we'll put some QDA on it first.
We'll put a little bit of pre-wrap around it.
And the idea behind this is to help to tighten that patella tendon down.
And we'll just go right underneath the knee cap itself,
and we'll just go around, say, two times, cut it.
We'll fix it with some inch-and-a-half tape, and that's it.
Elastic wrap for the hamstrings. We'll use some tough skin.
Six-inch elastic wrap, regular or extra long, depending on the size of the athlete,
and inch-and-a-half athletic tape.
We'll have the athlete face me. We'll have her knee slightly bent.
We'll go ahead and spray down the QDA or tough skin.
This helps the elastic wrap from sliding up or down.
One thing that you can try if you have somebody that needs a little extra heat,
you can go ahead and use the Kramer roll with a little bit of the Kramer G-Zig on it
and place it on the back of the hamstring.
That will help to keep that area a little warmer also.
For this, what we're going to do is we'll take the elastic wrap.
We'll start it at the bottom. We'll take some of the stretch out in the front.
We'll take more of the stretch out in the back where the hamstring is,
and we'll kind of try to lift it up and then around.
Once again, the same idea. We'll lift the hamstring area and then bring it around.
We'll lift it up in the back here and bring it around and lift it again.
So it doesn't fall down, we'll go ahead and put it around the athlete's waist.
Bring it back down and around, and we'll lift it up.
We'll go right on around, lifting, behind, laying in front,
putting on as many wraps as we have with the elastic wrap itself.
Go ahead and fix it to the top here. I'll have the athlete go ahead and hold that for me.
We'll put the butterflies in there to secure the elastic wrap.
One more here.
This will be followed by we can take some stretch tape over top of this and do the same thing.
We're pulling up in the back side.
Pull up, and this will give the support that we need for the hamstrings.
This is followed by some inch and a half tape to secure the procedure down.
Elastic wrap for the quadriceps, we'll use some tough skin or QDA,
six inch elastic wrap, regular or extra long depending on the size of the athlete,
and inch and a half athletic tape.
Once again, what we'll do is we'll have the athlete's face used, knees slightly bent.
We'll put the QDA on top, and then at this point, once again,
we can use the Kramer rule and the cream and GZ to put on the front if we want to add a little extra heat,
and then we'll go ahead and start at the front,
and this time we'll give you another look that will cross it.
In other words, this is a four inch, and we'll come up through the top,
and then we'll come right back down. In the back, we're not so concerned about the elastic in the front.
We want to take all the elastic out.
So we'll come up again on the top, pull a little tautness out of that,
lay it around the back, come down, pull it tight.
Same idea here, we'll pull it tight here, come back down,
and cross it all the way around.
Pull it taut in the front, go around the waist.
I like to go around the waist because this way it won't slide down, not that it would,
and then we'll go ahead and cross it again, up, pull it down,
and then we'll go ahead and finish it up.
Have the athlete go ahead and hold it there, if you would,
and now we'll use the elastic again to go ahead and take it down.
Same idea, we'll pull it taut here, pull it taut here, same up, down, pull it down,
and then go ahead and use the inch and a half tape to close the procedure.
The elastic wrap for the groin, we'll use some Tough Skin or QDA,
six inch elastic wrap, regular or extra long, and inch and a half athletic tape.
We'll have the athlete go ahead and spread their legs,
turn their foot in, and bend their knee ever so slightly.
We'll go ahead and spray some QDA on there.
This is followed by our six inch elastic wrap.
We'll go around the legs, put a little tight on the inside, we'll go up around the waist,
come in the groin, pull around, come back up around the waist.
Same idea, we'll take the tautness right out there on the inside,
and we'll go ahead and wrap a couple more right here.
Take the tautness out and bring it around.
Have the athlete go ahead and hold it here,
and then we'll take our elastic tape and follow the tape job.
Going up around the waist, and back down.
This is secured with inch and a half tape.
Hip spica.
Now with the hip spica, just like all the other wraps we've done so far,
we'll put some QDA on there to adhere the elastic wrap on there.
With the groin wrap, what we did is we pulled it in.
Now with the hip spica, we're going to do the opposite.
We're going to start on the inside and then go around the leg.
We'll start here at the bottom and we'll do circulars up the leg
until we get to the hip region,
and then we'll go ahead and go around the waist and then back down.
Same idea, we're going to go up through the groin area
and then around the hip and then back down.
Spica meeting that we go around a small loop and a big loop, i.e. spica.
We'll have the athlete go ahead and hold that there, right here,
and then we'll take the stretch tape
and we'll go ahead and secure the wrap with the stretch tape
followed by the inch and a half tape, hip spica.
At the point of protection taping, we'll use tough skin, inch and a half athletic tape,
two or three inch elastic tape, half inch closed cell foam or felt,
and six inch elastic wrap, regular or extra long.
What we'll do is we'll find the spot on the athlete where the pain is
and then we'll take the closed cell foam, we'll make a hole in it,
and then we'll go ahead and have the athlete put their hand over this.
What this does, this will help to disperse the pressure when the athlete gets hit there again.
We'll go ahead and wrap this around the athlete
and make sure that it doesn't move.
There's nothing wrong with putting a couple of these closed cell pads right there
and you can put another closed cell pad, if you'd like, right on top of that
and that will help to secure it also.
And we'll just go back around the groin, have the athlete go ahead and hold on to it there,
and then we'll close it up with some stretch tape,
followed by some inch and a half tape to close the procedure.
And that's how it's going to protect that hip.
Low back taping, tough skin, QDA, six inch elastic wrap, an inch and a half athletic tape.
We'll go ahead and spray the back area with the QDA, give it a chance to dry out a little bit,
and then we'll go ahead and take the inch and a half tape
and run it right along the back itself, overlapping about halfway each time.
This is to give a little extra support for that athlete that has that low back problem strained.
And where this is put is totally dependent upon where the athlete has the pain.
What we're saying here is that he's a little bit sore in this area.
So we'll go ahead and do some long ones, same idea,
followed by one more set here, overlapping about halfway each time.
This is secured by a six inch elastic wrap.
We'll have the athlete go ahead and put some air in your lungs,
and we'll go ahead and then bring this all the way around.
And this is to help support the low back.
This is followed by, we'll go ahead and get some inch and a half tape.
We'll secure the wrap itself right here.
Rib taping, we'll use some tough skin or QDA, six inch elastic wrap,
either regular or extra long depending on the size of the athlete,
inch and a half athletic tape, and a half inch closed cell foam.
What we're looking at here is we have the athlete that has a contusion right here in the ribs.
What we're going to do is we're going to go ahead and cut a doughnut pad out in that area.
The idea behind this is to, when he gets hit there,
is to disperse the pressure throughout the whole area and not hitting that one spot.
Before we do that, we're going to go ahead and spray him down with a little QDA.
This will help to secure the area.
Go ahead and hold that there for me.
We'll go ahead and wrap this right around the athlete.
This will help to secure this.
Go ahead and take a deep breath, make sure that we have a blow it out.
Make sure that you're able to breathe okay.
We'll go ahead and hold that there like, hold onto that if you would.
We'll secure it with inch and a half tape across here.
This will help to protect a rib contusion.
Elastic wrap shoulder spica, six inch elastic wrap, regular or extra long,
with inch and a half athletic tape to secure the tape job.
We'll go ahead and spray him down with a little QDA.
And now we need the athlete to go ahead and flex the bicep as we go ahead and wrap it around.
We'll go ahead twice around just to help it secure.
Go ahead and take a deep breath, blow it out.
There you go.
Come all the way around, expand your lungs.
And then we'll go around again, come up around the shoulder itself.
We've got enough here to go around one more time.
Expand your chest, bring around the bicep, go ahead and flex the bicep.
And then we will secure it with inch and a half tape.
Go ahead and flex the bicep.
There you go.
Elastic wrap for ankle or foot area, six or four inch elastic wrap,
regular size, and inch and a half athletic tape.
This is for to prevent swelling.
If we have an athlete who just got hurt,
we can also secure any kind of ice or wrapping that we may need to put on the ankle itself.
This is used mainly to secure the ice after the event or after the injury.
We'll take it up to the top, let the athlete hold that.
And then we'll just go ahead and secure it with some inch and a half tape.
Elastic wrap for the knee, six inch elastic wrap, regular, and inch and a half tape.
Once again, we'll start from the bottom and go towards the heart.
The idea behind this is to secure a bag of ice on the area of involvement,
either for first aid or before or after practice.
Once we run out of the wrap itself, have the athlete go ahead and hold on to it.
And this will be secured with inch and a half tape.
This is used for compression, not for support.
AC joint taping, we're going to use some tough skins,
some QDA two or three inch elastic tape, six inch elastic wrap,
either regular or extra long depending on the size of the athlete,
inch and a half athletic tape, and a half inch closed cell foam.
What we're going to do is first we're going to find the spot where the athlete has the pain,
and we're going to put the closed cell foam in that area,
or we have some new stuff that's called ortho gel that we're going to place over top.
But we're first going to go ahead and spray the area with the QDA.
We're going to protect certain areas of the body here.
Put the close, put the ortho gel on top right where the injury is.
This will help to protect it.
Putting the arm up on top of mine.
And then we're going to go ahead and start halfway down the back
and bring this around front.
Give it a little snug.
This will help to keep the clavicle down.
We'll bring another couple halfway down the middle of the back.
Bring it on around here.
Go ahead and cut that.
Make sure this stays secure.
Pull it down.
Have the athlete go ahead and hold it like he is.
We'll go ahead and bring another one.
Make sure he is comfortable.
Bring this here.
Go ahead and we'll pull this down again.
It helps to secure it.
Go ahead and hold that person.
And then we'll go ahead and take the elastic wrap at this point
and take it around him.
Go ahead and fill your lungs up.
Take this all the way around.
Go ahead and do a teapot now.
Bring this arm up.
Expand your lungs.
Bring this around his chest.
Go ahead and hold that.
At this point we'll go ahead and take some inch and a half tape
and bring it around on this side.
And close the procedure up.
Elbow hyperextension taping, we're going to use some tough skin
pre-wrap, two or three inch elastic tape,
inch and a half athletic tape.
First thing we're going to do is get the athlete to bend their arm
and then we'll put the QDA all over the extremity.
We'll go ahead and put the pre-wrap on, starting at the bottom.
Work it up, encompassing the whole area around the bicep
all the way to the top.
At this point we'll go ahead and have him flex his bicep
with it bent slightly.
This will be the anchor for the top.
Go ahead and cut that.
And then go ahead and flex the forearm.
Same idea, this will be the anchor at the bottom.
At this point what we do is we already have some strips cut
at about this size.
We'll go ahead and split both ends of the tape.
We'll secure the top here.
Pull it down tight at the position that we want to end up here.
Do the same thing here on both sides.
We'll bring one more end on top for extra support.
Same idea, we'll split both ends.
Pull it around to split.
This will help to secure the top.
Take the bottom, take all the stretch out of it.
At this point we'll go ahead and take the 2-inch
and start at the bottom.
Make sure he's got a flexed forearm
and we'll carry the tape job.
Now flex the bicep all the way around to the top.
Back down, cut it here at the bottom.
Use inch and a half tape to finish up the close
and this prevents hyperextension.
Wrist taping, tough skin or QDA, pre-wrap,
2- or 3-inch elastic tape, inch and a half athletic tape.
We're going to go ahead and spray the QDA on top of the area.
This will be followed by the pre-wrap.
Go ahead and open up your hand a little bit.
Have him secure his hand on the trainer.
Then we'll go ahead and do a tie down
on both the top and the bottom,
making sure that we're careful of the web space in the hand.
We'll go ahead and do two so we have nice control on this.
Two in the top.
If it hurts the athlete to bend down this way,
what we'll do is we'll try to support it on the backside
so it's not able to do that.
What we have now is it hurts the athlete to come up this way.
What we'll do is we'll go ahead and pull it up this way
and bring it to this position.
We'll make a fan, which this was made beforehand,
and all we do with the fan is we'll just lay strips
by crossing them, put this right on top of the athlete's hand.
At this point, what we'll do is go ahead and place there.
We'll go through the hand web space again.
We'll fold the tape down.
Then we'll secure it again.
At this point, we'll bring the hand up this way just a touch.
This way, the athlete will not be able to extend his hand out
or it will prevent some of that motion.
We'll bend this back down and we'll secure this.
Once we've come to this point,
we'll go ahead and get our elastic tape.
We'll start at the bottom.
Open your hand up real wide so we don't cut off any of the circulation.
We'll come up around the hand into the web space of the hand
and we'll bring it back around and secure it at the top.
One more time at the bottom.
We'll go ahead and cut it, followed by the 1-1.5 inch tape
to secure the wrap.
This will keep the athlete from bringing their hand back.
Hand protection, we'll use some Tufskin or QDA pre-wrap,
1-1.5 inch athletic tape, heel and lace pads.
We'll go ahead and spray it down the area.
We can put the heel and lace pads in to protect the certain areas that we like.
For this demonstration today, we'll use some of this ortho gel.
The way that this works, we'll just go ahead and place it right on the area
where we want the padding.
Say, for example, this is an offensive lineman.
We'll go ahead and give him a kind of a claw and lean towards me.
Kind of an offensive lineman, kind of a pad.
Once we get to this point, we'll go ahead and use the stretch tape.
Open your hand up and flex it.
Be careful of the web space in the hand itself.
Come up and around, around the wrist.
One more time around the top.
Extra protection.
Then we'll secure this down with 1-1.5 inch tape.
It's a protection for the hand.
Some spiketaping, Tufskin or QDA, and inch athletic tape.
What we'll do is we'll have the athlete lean towards me,
hand real wide.
We'll spray with the QDA.
We'll go around the area with the pre-wrap.
Keep your hand wide.
We'll go ahead and go in there.
If it ever starts to roll, all that you have to do is pull it off.
It's a really nice situation.
At this point, what we do is we'll take our 1-1.5 inch tape
around the bottom.
Give it something to secure to.
We'll take another piece of tape around the top.
Not too tight because we'll cut off the circulation.
At this point, what we'll do is make sure that he's comfortable
and we'll start pushing, strapping it down.
Slightly overlaying each one.
Make sure they're flat.
At this point, we'll go ahead and go up around the thumb
and the spica.
Not too tight.
Same idea.
One more.
Up and around the thumb.
This can be followed by your 2-inch elastic
that will help secure the area.
Pull that thumb back.
Around the web area, we'll go ahead and pinch the tape
and bring it around.
Then we can also come around the other side.
This time, what we'll do is we'll fold it on both sides,
bring it around, and pull it back.
This will secure the thumb.
At that point, we'll go ahead and cut this off
and secure the tape with 1-1.5-inch athletic tape.
Any excess pre-wrap, you can go ahead and pull off.
Checkering for the thumb, we need some tough skin or QDA
and inch athletic tape.
All we do here is we just secure the area with a little bit of QDA,
have the athlete go ahead and get into that claw form.
We'll go right around the thumb and right on top of it.
At this point, all we have to do is pinch them together,
and that's the checkering.
After pinching the tape together, you may secure the pinch
by wrapping with 1-inch tape.
Buddy taping for the fingers, 1-inch athletic tape,
and felt or foam.
What we'll do is we have an injury to one finger,
and the other finger is okay.
What we'll do is we'll put either felt, foam,
or you can take some pre-wrap in between there,
but for this today, what we're going to do is just take some
heel and lace pads, and then all that we do is we tape above
and below the joint line,
and this will help to make sure the ligaments in the fingers
stay stable.
For the extension of the fingers, we need tough skin, QDA,
pre-wrap, 2-inch elastic tape, inch,
and inch-and-a-half athletic tape.
In this scenario, what we're concerned about is it hurts
the athlete to move his finger back this way.
So all we're going to do is we'll come up with a tie-down
at the top, and we'll go ahead and put a little QDA
at the bottom here,
and we'll take it through the hand with an anchor
at the bottom, and then all we'll do is we'll take the tape
and we'll follow it with the fingers
and move a little bit slightly back.
Take a couple pieces of tape just like that.
At this point, we'll go ahead and take our inch tape
and go around the finger.
Make sure it's not too tight and cuts off the circulation,
and make sure that this is nice and secure
and he's still able to bend his finger properly,
and then we'll take our elastic tape,
go ahead and secure it.
Then make a claw.
Come around here, go around the wrist,
go ahead and cut the tape and secure it
with an inch and a half,
and this will keep the finger from extending.
Blood securing, 4x4 gauze sponge,
2 or 3 inch Coflex self-adherent wrap.
What we have here is we have a wound on our athlete.
I'll take the 4x4, give it to the athlete,
and they know to put it on top and add compression
while I'm putting my gloves on.
Once I have my gloves on, I will take the Coflex
and add some compression
and secure the bandaging on top of the wound.
Coflex works very good because it secures to itself
and it doesn't stick to the athlete.
Once it's to the point there, we go ahead and tear it,
and then we have a nice wound care.
In closing, I hope you have gained some insight
into the art and science of athletic taping and wrapping.
The techniques and products you have seen
are used every day by professional athletic trainers,
coaches, to help their athletes avoid injuries
and to recover quickly should an injury occur.
With practice, you can master these techniques
and make an important contribution to the health and safety
and success of your team.
On behalf of Kramer Products and the Sport Clinic,
I'm Jim Clover.
Tape on.
Just stick to my advice and you'll be okay.
I'm the one they come running to,
but they take for granted everything I do.
When it hurts real bad, they're knocking down my door,
and I'll tape, tape, tape until I can't take no more.
Giving therapy to their anatomy
with a dose of psychology.
I'm the first to arrive and the last one to leave.
I work just like a servant, 16 hours a day.
I'm a member of high standing in the NHEA.
Peakey, Newell, and Philly Hill,
if they could only see.
I'm proud to call myself an ATC.