This is an ankle-sprain wrap. Wrapping is different than taping someone. Wrapping allows air circulation into the certain body part that is being wrapped and also keeps you warm from its cotton material. Being wrapped is better used after a sport or in the period when injured but in the recuperation phase. Taping is more involved when you are active in that same moment. For example before games athletes are taped, but after the game if injured they will wrap the athlete in elastic cloth wraps for more comfort. Wrapping will also come loose if too much activity is being involved. This wrapping of the ankle is how you heal the ankle sprain by putting pressure/force on the injured ankle so it will be more comfortable to move around on. Taping of the ankle does the same thing, but just like before wrapping is during the recuperation phase not the active phase.
Beam, Joel. Orthopedic Taping, Wrapping, Bracing, & Padding. 2nd ed. F.A. Davis Company, 2011. 512. Print.
I did not know you were suppose to use cotton but that makes sense to me. I thought this was an interesting post because it is very common to sprain your ankle. Does wrapping make the ankle heal faster? Why are athletes tapped?
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