How to tape a thumb

How to Tape a Thumb

We are going to do a standard thumb taping for someone involved more and likely in the contact sport. We have started off with some one to wrap to save and protect the hair on the hand and reduce the risk of contact dermatitis and we will just covering the area that we can which one can get under very flat so that it is comfortable unto the tape. Once we have covered that, what we are going to do is we are going to add a couple pf anchors. The position I preferred with the taping in is the hand shake position with the hand straight up and down. Some people prefer the hand flat but I find that this is a little bit easier for the athlete and they get less fatigue in this position. And I have put three anchors on there, once I have my three anchors on there I am going to cover some with the space to give compression over the whole region and I am going to cover that completely. Now I am going to do a figure of eight over the hand and into the wrist to add a little bit more support and more importantly to just cover the whole region. I do not want to get the design too tight and I have to be careful of, there is a spot right on the corner of the wrist right here, where if I can press that too much it becomes uncomfortable, so we want to avoid that.

Now I am going to take and use this thinner tape simply because it is easier to lay flat and being flat is very important and I am going to do a series of figure of eights around the thumb with easy constant pressure. I want that figure of eight, the x across in the direction that I am trying to limit that movement and I just work my way around and I put three or four of those figure of eights in place and let us again extend the tape, you will notice I had laid the tape out flat and then pull it down and lay it fat and pull it down. If I noticed that the thumb is turning a lovely shade of purple or blue, I know I put it on a little bit too tight and now I have to put on loosely. And that is your standard from tape job.


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