Elbow, Wrist and Hand - Athletic Taping and Bracing
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Acute Care Lab
Spring ‘10
UCL is most important (Tommy John)
Hyperextension taping
◦ Similar to knee; have the elbow bent about 10-20
degrees
Make a muscle (contract biceps)
Apply 2 anchors to biceps and 2 anchors to midforearm
Make a fan, crossing the cubital fossa (2 fans)
Anchor after each fan
Close tape job
Check circulation
Similar to knee collateral taping- elbow bent
10-20 degrees
◦ Apply two anchor strips to biceps area and midforearm
Contracts biceps muscle
Applies a fan on either the medial or lateral aspect,
depending on which ligament is injured
Applies two fans
Closes tape job and checks circulation
◦ Not very comfortable to throw with
Flexion
Extension
Pronation
◦ Palm faces down
Supination
◦ Palm faces up
Ulnar deviation
◦ Hand moves towards your ulna
Radial deviation
◦ Hand moves towards your radius
Wrist
◦ Compression (mostly for weight lifting)
◦ Hyperextension (common in offensive lineman)
Variety of ways to do this
Hand
◦ Hyperextension
Same as above
Fingers
◦ “Buddy tape”
◦ Hyperextension
◦ Thumb taping (common in majority of sports)
The hand and finger tape jobs will take
practice!
◦ We use them just as much as an ankle tape
Don’t get frustrated by it
Go off of the proficiencies
◦ Jeff and myself have variations to each tape job as
does each athletic trainer
Learn it first then you can add your own variations