Everyone risks damaging his arm or leg. This 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 has occurred and the joint has been damaged, you need to urgently seek medical help, especially if the skin is damaged and an abrasion occurs.
Why? Because tetanus bacillus can get on the surface of the abrasion. She is extremely dangerous. Also, in case of joint damage, a situation arises when without qualified help you can get an injury that will bother a person for his whole life. Sprain is dangerous to health. But while waiting for an ambulance, you can help yourself by applying a bandage to the turtle. This article details what these dressings are like. We will also describe what types of dressings are, their purpose and methods of use.
What is a turtle dressing 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 tortoise 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 any person in any conditions - be it sports, work or domestic situations.
So, in what cases do you need a turtle dressing for a joint (knee or elbow):
- bruise in the joint;
- sprain;
- hemarthrosis;
- rehabilitation period after surgery on the joint.
Benefit
What are the advantages of such a dressing:
- When using this dressing, it is likely 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 repair damaged tissue.
In general, the competent use of the dressing will allow the patient to quickly feel relief.
Turtle dressings come in many forms. They are used 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 dressing has antiseptic properties, does not allow harmful microorganisms to penetrate through the damaged skin into the bloodstream. This dressing consists of gauze and adhesive tape with a bactericidal effect, as well as a bandage.
Hemostatic
These dressings 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 tightened tightly when applied.
Immobilizing
Such dressings perfectly fix the tissue of the injured area. Therefore, they are also called fixing. They need to be used in situations when a sprain has occurred.
Bandage
This is the most common type of tortoise dressings that have been used since ancient times. The bandage perfectly passes air and does not allow anaerobic bacteria to multiply. It is also flexible and therefore convenient to use. The density of the bandage dressing allows you to fix the ligaments well if they are stretched. Turtle dressing is convergent and divergent.
How to apply this dressing?
Converging dressing is applied when joint damage has occurred, and divergent dressing is used for tissue injuries adjacent to the joint.
Before applying the dressing, it is necessary to strictly follow sanitary standards. Wash your hands thoroughly. Ideally, rubber gloves should also be worn after.
After this, you need to calm down if it comes to self-help, or reassure the victim. Since the dressing process can cause severe pain. The victim should be prepared for this.
The application of the tortoise dressing should be neat, and movements careful. Because any carelessness can lead to pain in the area of damage to the elbow.
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 righties, but for lefties everything should be the other way around. The back of the material for dressing the patient should fit snugly on the damaged skin. The bandage should not be stretched, no wrinkles should be created.
We put on a dressing bandage
How should the tortoise bandage be applied to the elbow joint? Overlapping is as follows:
- First you need to bend the elbow joint by about 90 degrees, but not more than 100.
- The shoulder region in the mind should be divided into three equal parts. You need to start with the area that is as close to the elbow as possible. There you need to make several tours to strengthen the area.
- Next, tours in the form of a figure eight are applied. 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 crossing tours is always necessary in the joint area.
- Each subsequent layer of the bandage overlaps the previous one.
- The dressing can be completed when the dressing has reached the level of the joint.
- The final fixation is performed in the center of the joint.
Bandage overlay
The joint is bent in the same way as when applying the descending one. Fixing tours are made in the elbow or knee joint. Next, eight-shaped tours are made at the top and bottom of the joint alternately, crossing each other on the joint. The final fixation tour is done on the forearm or shoulder.
It turns out that the difference between the descending and diverging types of dressings lies in the places where the dressing was applied and finally fixed. Otherwise, all actions are the same.