Basketball is one of the most popular ball games in the world, with a large number of participants. With the development of basketball events, the degree of brilliance and antagonism are constantly improved, but with the increase of antagonism, the injury probability of athletes is also greatly improved, especially the lower limb joint is the most easily damaged. In the lower limb joints, the ankle joint bears the most weight of the whole body and has strong mobility, so ankle joint injury is also very common in basketball and other events. Of course, there are many ways to prevent injury, such as improving the strength of the muscles and ligaments around the ankle joint, using protective equipment to strengthen the stability of the ankle joint and so on. Today, we mainly talk about one of the methods to strengthen the ankle stability with protective equipment, that is, applying gymnastic sports tape.

First, the analysis of the combination of ankle joint structure and sprain injury in basketball

The most common injury of ankle joint in basketball is "sprain", but generally speaking, sprain is divided into inward "sprain" and outward "sprain". The general people "sprain" should rarely encounter outward situation, which is mainly due to the structural characteristics of ankle joint itself (such as strong medial deltoid ligament, etc.), especially the lower protruding tibia is slightly shorter than fibula (distance) The upper part of the bone is the inner tibia and the outer fibula), so if it is outward, "the lower end of the basic fibula of the sprain foot will be broken."

If it is an inward sprain, the corresponding ligaments on the outside of the ankle must be correspondingly elongated. The main damaged ligaments are calcaneus fibula ligament, anterior talofibular ligament, posterior talofibular ligament, etc.

Second: main parts that needed  tape

According to the description in the first part, you should know that the main direction of the sprain is inward, and the main damaged ligament is several ligaments on the outside. When fixing the ankle position, we should mainly consider how to avoid internal sprain and fix several ligaments on the outside.

Third: main materials

1. Foam cotton bandage

2. Gymnastic sports tape

3. Scissors

Third, the method of tape application:

1 first use foam cotton bandage to fix the main parts, then use sports adhesive tape to wrap the outside.

2. The main ligaments on the lateral side of the ankle must be wrapped with longitudinal adhesive tape, and the top and bottom of the adhesive tape must be fixed with transverse circular adhesive tape of longitudinal adhesive tape;

3 "8 characters" Rao method;

4. Due to the large adhesive area, pay attention to the movement (medical) tape to minimize direct contact with the skin;

5. When removing the adhesive tape, use scissors to cut longitudinally, pay attention to the safety of use;

6. The degree of tightness shall be adjusted according to personal feelings to prevent over loosening or over-tightening.

The above is the main principle and method of basketball players' using gymnastic sports tape. The principle of ankle protection and a bandage is the same, which mainly plays a stabilizing role. The selection of model size and tightness must be different from person to person. Only the correct selection of size and tightness can effectively play a protective role.