Cohesive wound care is easily one of the most effective sports strappings. It is incredibly popular in Australia, as it is renowned for its many benefits that provide athletes with a quality product whenever it is necessary.
With this in mind, here are six outstanding benefits of using self adhesive elastic bandage for your strapping tape:
- It doesn’t stick to the skin
This may sound contrarian to its namesake, but cohesive strapping does not actually stick to the skin! Instead, it sticks entirely to itself, ensuring that when wrapping the solution over itself, it coheres together. This makes it incredibly useful for any application where it has to be strapped around an arm or leg (like those that are regularly performed in sporting events!).
What’s more, as there is no adhesive, there is little risk of the solution irritating or damaging the hair or skin. This makes it a far greater alternative to other options, which are notorious for pulling at the hair and occasionally harming the skin!
- It provides a range of support
Cohesive wrap provides a variety of support for injured or fragile joints. This ranges from light to tough depending on how many layers you require for the injury. For example, if you are wrapping a sprained ankle, you probably don’t want to apply the cohesive wrap with too much compression as this would produce a constrictive sensation and irritate the injury.
Conversely, you can provide high support levels without over-constricting simply by adding more layers of tape. Multiple layers, applied without adding too much stretch, can easily provide the level of light support needed in such circumstances. Pressing layers together and adding extra layers will firm up the injury, providing a higher level of compression.
- You don’t have to worry about it giving too much
With many other kinds of sports wrap, you generally have to wrap them more tightly if you want them to make up for being stretched out and loosened after some usage. Cohesive wrap, conversely, doesn’t contain this frustrating level of give and stays just how you want it until it is unwrapped or removed.
- It can be removed by hand
You can easily tear and remove this wrap by hand. It can be easily torn without the need for scissors or other cutting methods, allowing you to quickly form it in the way you need so that you can use it right there in real time.
- It can even be reused
As this solution doesn’t require adhesives for sticking, it continues to keep its stick. Therefore, if you want to keep using the same (clean) piece of self adhesive elastic bandage this is entirely possible. However, we do say clean as you might not want to keep using the same bandage if you have been sweating or the solution has come in contact with blood or other substances!
- It stretches really well
Hence the name “self adhesive elastic bandage”! It can easily stretch to double its unstretched length, giving a great level of flexibility when you need it. For example, you can easily wrap it without any use of stretching to provide support to a small injury, or you could just as easily stretch it tightly to provide a severe wound with heavy compression support.
As you can see, self adhesive elastic tape is the perfect option for sports wrap for so many reasons – maybe it’s time your club made the switch?