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Tap your fingers

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Taping is a relatively new method to treat joints and muscles after injuries, but also to prevent an injury.

You can ultimately tape every joint and muscleto give him the necessary stability to give.
Especially when fingers or hands and arms are strong used in sports the taping process is used.
By taping the Skin protected become.

In sports such as basketball or volleyball, as well as tennis or table tennis, not only are the joints of the fingers very heavily stressed, but the skin of the fingers is also heavily stressed by the ball and racket contact. Taping processes are used very successfully here.
Especially preventive to protect the skin the skin on fingers and joints are protected by the taping process.
In volleyball and tennis, the fingers, which are particularly exposed to high friction, are taped.
Wrists are then more likely to be taped around Prevent overloads or already used Relieve overload.

Instructions for finger tapping

A kinesiotape is an elastic and self-adhesive tape that can be applied anywhere on the body.
Most of the time, tapes are stuck over a muscle to be protected or overworked.
Often muscles that are located on larger joints in the body are treated over a very large area.
But also large muscle plates, such as those in the back area, can be relieved by a taping procedure.

Small adhesive strips are used for finger tapping. Here it is also possible to cut a kinesio tape accordingly beforehand.
When taping a finger, the elastic band should be applied to the skin or joint area that should be taped.
It is important that the skin is dry and that the tape is not applied to the affected area under tension or tension.
The tape becomes self-adhesive by lightly pressing and rubbing. A tape can stay on the affected skin area for several days or even weeks.

When tapping with the fingers, it is removed immediately after the sports unit if it was intended purely to relieve the skin (ball sports, etc.).
If it has been put on to relieve finger joints and ligaments, it can remain on the affected area until the symptoms have subsided.

Find out more about the topic here Torn ligament finger and overstretched finger

Today you can buy kinesio tapes in any sports shop or get a prescription from an orthopedic surgeon or sports medicine specialist. In some cases, the health insurance company will also cover the costs.

Read more on the subject here Kinesio tape

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Finger tapping while climbing

At the Climbing sport will the Finger joints and the skin over the fingers particularly heavily used. Taping processes are used particularly frequently here.
Grabbing and pulling movements, which must be carried out in the wrist and with the fingers when climbing, require special protection of the finger joints.
The Fingertips must remain freeso as not to impair the correct grip technique when climbing.
Usually the first finger joints are then taped under the fingertips of climbers.
Often the manufactured ones measure Tape strips only 1-2 cm and then will around the corresponding joint wrapped.
On the one hand, this ensures that the skin is protected by the tape in this area, and on the other hand, a gripping and pulling movement can be carried out in the fingers without impairment.
If the tape slips on the wall, it has an additional one joint and skin protective effect.

Taping in the event of a capsule tear or injuries

In contrast to the joint and skin protection measures, there is also the therapeutic application of a kinesio tape.

In the area of the finger joints, overexertion and overloading can also lead to a rupture of the capsule or a tear.Usually by twisting one or more fingers, a joint capsule suddenly tears, which can also be very painful.
Read more on the subject here Capsule tear

In addition to cooling, immobilization of the joint is of particular importance for treatment. A kinesio tape is also very suitable to ensure this.
The affected capsule is wrapped in the kinesio tape and remains until the symptoms have subsided. After a capsule injury, despite the attached tape, it is important not to put any additional load on the ligament or the joint.
The sport that contributed to this capsule injury, for example, should initially be avoided in order to protect the ligamentous and capsular apparatus in the long term.

In addition, the joint can and should also be cooled. For example, an ice pack can be placed on the kinesio tape. The cooling can be repeated several times a day while the tape remains on the joint for a few days or even a week or two.

Read more on the topic: Capsule tear on the finger

Taping for sprains

At Sprains of the finger joints the taping process has also proven to be a useful and helpful measure.
Sprains come on the finger joints quite often in front.
Whether in everyday life or in sports, careless movements or accidents can lead to a painful sprain of one or more finger joints.

Once ruled out a fracture can with the Conservative treatment of the sprain started become. This consists, on the one hand, of relief, cooling and compression.

For sprains has the PECH rule enforced (break, ice, compression, elevation).
At Finger sprains enough the Compression, relief and ice treatment most times out.
The immobilization and the compression can be achieved by a Kinesio tape can be achieved by applying the self-adhesive and elastic tape to the sprained area.
The kinesio tape should be applied to the sprain with little tension and pressure. After a few seconds, the band has adapted to the morphology of the finger.

Cooling can be done over the tape by placing an ice pack on the finger. Even with sprains, the tape can remain on the affected area for a few days to a few weeks before it should be changed.
Are the Complaints have not disappeared after this time, should the diagnostics again be endeavored. Possibly is the alleged sprain perhaps but a fracture.

Taping for rheumatism

The Taping process has proven to be a fairly new therapeutic method currently rather in the Orthopedics and sports medicine enforced. Although there are no clear scientific studies regarding its effectiveness, many orthopedic and sports medicine specialists use this treatment.

At rheumatism come in Kinesio tape current rather less used.
An application would probably be justified, however, as the tape does many things that also counteract rheumatism.
By compression a kinesio tape would e.g. the disturbing joint changescaused by prolonged rheumatism, to get stopped.
Furthermore, the pressure of the kinesio tape would become one Reduction of rheumatic pain to lead.
On the actual inflammatory process, which leads to rheumatism, would have a kinesiotape no influence.
Kinesio tapes belong not yet on the general treatment measures if you have a rheumatic disease. However, this may change over time, if appropriate studies are available.