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:

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.

Pain relief for runner's knee from RunnersWorld.com

Pain relief for runner's knee from RunnersWorld.com

I found this website with Mr. Heurich and it shows some cool information about taking care of yourself and preventing injuries like runner's knee if you are a runner. The website is runnersworld.com.

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.