Clinical Taping Skills with Dance Specific Adaptations for Clinicians

Overview

Enhance your clinical practice with sports taping techniques!

To date, taping skills courses have focused on traditional sports taping to assist in returning athletes to activity as they heal from injury. This course will teach you the traditional taping techniques, as well as how to modify these techniques to best support the dancer’s/athlete's return to activity while respecting their mobility requirements. 

This course has been designed to give participants a full introduction to taping so that each taping product and the rationale for application is understood. Participants will learn the tools of the trade, the different tape supplies, the risks and benefits, as well as best practices for safe application and removal.

This course is applicable content for those clinicians challenging sport physiotherapy and athletic therapy exams.

Taping techniques will be taught as per normal sport protocol, participants will then learn to adapt these applications to make them specific to the needs of dancers.

Learning Objectives

In this online course, you will learn:

1. The procedures and principles of taping.
   
   
2. The traditional sport taping methods and how to adapt these techniques for dancers and artistic athletes.
   
   
3. How to select the most appropriate taping products and techniques to accomplish your clinical goals.
   
   
4. How to tape like a pro and feel confident backstage, on-field, and in the clinic with your skills.

The following taping will be taught:

• Ankle return to sport/dance, inversion vs eversion ankle sprain
• Acute ankle compression
• Tibialis posterior support
• Plantar fascia support – low die arch support (standard and adaptation for dance)
• Turf toe – flexor hallucis longus support
• Toe buddy taping
• Achilles tendon return to dance (standard and light support)
• Shin splints
• Superior tib fib joint support
• Patella femoral pain support and lateral patellar subluxation support
• Patellar tendonosis strap
• Knee hyperextension control (standard and light)
• ACL
• MCL
• Hip spica
• Psoas support
• Lumbar spine support

The following supplies will be required:

• Utility scissors
• Tape sharks
• Tuff-skin or prewrap spray
• Skin lube
• Heel and lace pads x 20 squares
• 1.5 inch athletic tape x 8 rolls
• Leukotape x 1 roll
• Kinesio/K tape x 1 roll
• Prewrap x 2 rolls
• 3 inch tensor x 1
• Double length 6 “ tensor x 1
• 3” Tensoplast tape x 4
• 2’ Tensoplast tape x 4
• 3” lightplast cover tape x 4

Audience

This online course is for:

• Clinicians wishing to use taping skills in their clinical practice.
• Clinicians working with athletes, specifically artistic athletes and dancers.
• Clinicians working towards sport certification exams.
• Clinicians who want to review their taping skills and have a video resource to refer to.