Mentor Meeting

In my mentor meeting today, I taped my friend Courtney's ankle to show how much better I've been getting since I went to Ithaca College and had them teach me. It was nerve-wracking because I didn't know what to expect. I wasn't sure if I was going to do everything correctly, and I didn't want to waste the tape that I had, because that was ALL the tape that I had. But it went quite well I thought. I'll let you decide, here it is:

Yawn

Oh my gosh, today was the most boring day of my WISE project thus far. Chelsea, the final student from IC finally came in today. She is a gymnast, so they were still in season, so she couldn't come down to the high school until today. Since she's going to be working with Kara doing Lacrosse or Track, Kim said that maybe it was better if I did a different sport. I have been changing it up like I mentioned before, but I don't have as many choices now. She doesn't want me working with Lacrosse as much as I have been recently. So, I changed sports. Remember how I mentioned that Girls's Lacrosse was the most boring thing? Yea, I had to work with Girl's Lacrosse today. John and I spent most of the time trying to stay awake...soooo boring.

In better news, during my WISE mentor meeting today, I taped my best friend's ankle. The video is going to be posted as soon as I find my cord. That will hopefully be tonight, but I don't know for sure if I know where my cord is, so at the earliest possible time, I will upload that so you can see it. It was really weird to be doing a tape job without anybody explaining it to me. I talk to Mr. Heurich, and tell him, and the camera what I am doing. I'm not used to that, it was kinda cool. :)

I guess that's all for now, hopefully you will see the video soon. bye!

The steps to taping an ankle.

So, when I went to IC on Friday and learned how to tape an ankle better, I wrote down the steps that I will be talking through when I tape somebody's ankle next Tuesday. These are the steps I learned from the person who taught me.




The only difference was that I was taught the two figure 8s before the medial heel locks and then 1 more after the lateral heel locks. I was also taught to do an anchor between each stirrup.

At IC...

I had an appointment on Friday, so I didn't end up going to school. My mom and I went to Ithaca College. She had to get an allergy shot, but I didn't really want to sit through that, so I went to the Training Room. I met Courtney Gray, one of the Trainers. She is super sweet. I was talking to her about how I am going to Ithaca College to study Athletic Training. However, I also told her that I wanted to learn how to better tape somebody's ankle. Mr. Heurich and I talked about having me tape somebody's ankle during our mentor meeting the Tuesday we come back. In order to do that, I needed to get a better understanding.

I met a guy in the Athletic Training program. I feel bad, I don't remember his name, but he taught me how to tape an ankle better than before. It was nice because it was one-on-one. It was a little difficult for him though because he was teaching me on himself, and I've since tried doing that and it isn't easy. The thing I love the most about Ithaca College is how accommodating everybody was. When I left, they gave me pre-wrap, and three rolls of tape to practice with. They just invited me in and taught me in the spur of the moment, then they invited me back later in the week. I don't know if I'll be able to make it back up, I might on Friday, we'll see. I just thought it was amazing that they were so welcoming. They were so nice.

Taping Video

For part of my project, I wanted to learn some basic techniques for taping of all kinds, whether it be ankle, knee, wrist, whatever. In my meeting with Mr. Heurich the other day, we found this video and I watched it in its entirety at home that night and it looked really interesting, and answered a question I had when I went to see Kim last week. I saw her tape an ankle for a basketball player, and I wondered what the things were that she was putting on either side of the ankle, and I didn't have a chance to ask the question, but this video answered that question for me.



If you don't know, a sprain is when the ligaments stretch or tear. An inversion ankle sprain that was mentioned in the video is when the ankle is rolled to the outside thus either stretching or tearing that ligament. The heel lock that he was putting on after the stirrup help to prevent this from happening.