Everyone is at risk of hurting their arm or leg. It can be a bruise with a violation of the integrity of the skin, bone tissue. With such injuries, the mobility of the elbow or knee joint is impaired. When an accident occurs and a joint is damaged, you need to urgently seek medical help, especially if the skin is damaged and an abrasion appears.
Why? Because a tetanus bacillus can get on the surface of the abrasion. She is extremely dangerous. Also, if the joints are damaged, a situation arises when, without qualified help, you can get injured, which will bother a person for the rest of his life. Sprained ligaments are dangerous to he alth. But while waiting for an ambulance, you can help yourself by applying a turtle bandage. This article details what these bandages are. We will also describe what types of dressings are, their purpose and methods.use.
What is a turtle bandage and what is it for?
This bandage perfectly protects the joints of not only the elbow, but also the joints of the knees. It is made from a bandage made from natural ingredients. This bandage is strong enough, the material "breathes". At the same time, the bandage itself has a high degree of elasticity.
A tortoiseshell bandage is applied to the joint when there is a serious injury to the elbow. An injury of this kind can occur during a fall, because the main support of the body during a fall is precisely the elbow. Such injuries can happen to anyone in any setting - whether it be sports, work or domestic situations.
So, in what cases do you need a turtle bandage on the joint (knee or elbow):
- a bruise in the joint area;
- sprain;
- hemarthrosis;
- rehabilitation period after joint surgery.
Benefit
What are the benefits of this bandage:
- When using this bandage, there is a possibility that further medical care will simply not be necessary. The bandage will effectively help fix the position of the joint and restore its function.
- It relieves pain, soothes the joint.
- Protects the skin from the penetration of harmful microorganisms.
- It has the ability to quickly restore damaged tissues.
In general, proper use of the dressing will allow the patient to quicklyfeel relieved.
Turtle headbands come in many varieties. They are applied depending on the type of damage and its severity.
Protective
Protective dressings are used to protect the skin. Accordingly, they are used for those injuries when the skin is broken (abrasions, cuts; deep wounds). The bandage has antiseptic properties, it does not allow harmful microorganisms to penetrate through damaged skin into the bloodstream. Such a bandage consists of gauze and adhesive tape with a bactericidal effect, as well as a bandage.
Hemostatic
These bandages have a compressive effect. They are designed to stop bleeding after an injury. In order for such a bandage to perform its functions optimally, it must be tightly pulled together when applied.
Immobilizing
Such dressings perfectly fix the tissues of the injured area. Therefore, they are also called fixatives. They should be used in situations where sprains have occurred.
Bandage
This is the most common type of tortoiseshell and has been used since ancient times. The bandage perfectly passes air and does not allow anaerobic bacteria to multiply. It is also elastic and therefore comfortable to use. The density of the bandage bandage allows you to fix the ligaments well if they are stretched. Turtle bandage can be convergent and divergent.
How to apply this bandage?
Converging bandageis used when the joint is damaged, and diverging is used for injuries to tissues located near the joint.
Before applying a bandage, it is necessary to strictly follow sanitary standards. You need to wash your hands thoroughly. Ideally, rubber gloves should also be worn afterwards.
After that, you need to calm down if it is about self-help, or calm the victim. Since the process of applying a bandage can cause severe pain. The victim must be ready for this.
The application of the tortoiseshell bandage must be gentle and the movements careful. Because any indiscretion can lead to pain in the elbow area.
The left hand should take the end of the bandage. The head unwinding the bandage should be in the right hand. This rule works for right-handers, but for left-handers, everything should be the other way around. The back of the material for dressing the patient should fit snugly against the damaged skin. The bandage should not be stretched, no folds should be created.
Applying a bandage
How should the tortoiseshell bandage be applied to the elbow joint? The overlay of the descending occurs like this:
- First you need to bend your elbow joint about 90 degrees, but not more than 100.
- You should mentally divide the shoulder area into three equal parts. You need to start from the area that is closest to the elbow. There you need to make several rounds to strengthen the area.
- Next, rounds are drawn in the form of a figure eight. At the same time, the bandage should be applied in this way alternately in the shoulder and elbow areas. But it is important to remember that it is always necessary to cross tours in the joint area.
- Each next layer of bandage overlaps the previous one.
- The dressing can be finished when the dressing has reached the level of the joint.
- Final fixation in the center of the joint.
Applying a diverging dressing
The joint is bent in the same way as when applying a descending joint. Fixing rounds are made in the area of the elbow or knee joint. Further, figure-of-eight tours are made at the top and bottom of the joint alternately, crossing each other at the joint. The final round for fixation is made on the forearm or on the shoulder.
It turns out that the difference between the descending and diverging types of dressing lies in the places where the bandage begins to be applied and its final fixation. Otherwise, all actions are the same.
