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- Brad Heineck, physical therapist.
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- In our own opinion, of course, Bob.
- The title of this video
is Simplest Taping Technique Ever For Plantar Fasciitis.
This video is part of a series of videos
on Plantar Fasciitis, and if you want to see the full series
go to bobandbrad.com under our programs section
and it'll be there.
- Sure. - So why tape your foot?
And first off, you should probably get approval
from your doctor if you're under a doctor's care
to make sure he thinks it's gonna be okay
or she thinks it's gonna be okay, or your pediatrist.
But generally, we're gonna find out whether or not
providing arch support to your foot
is gonna help it feel better.
- Right. So if you tape like this,
and you clearly get some improvement, it feels good,
'cause the tape's not gonna last that long.
Only a day or so, then you need some arch supports
that you can put in your shoes and then have that support
there all the time.
- Yeah, and or if you're one that
for some reason can't use an insole or an arch support,
maybe doesn't fit in your shoe
or maybe you wear real fashionable shoes.
- That's a good point.
- Then maybe you're gonna need to tape for a while.
- I think they call them pumps or something like that.
- Sure, we don't know.
So materials, we're kind of particular about this.
You're probably gonna need what we call cover roll.
This is a two inch cover roll, you can get this on Amazon
or any of the big box stores.
Oh, that's the cover roll.
And this is gonna help, it's lot less irritating to the skin
to put this on.
- Some people call that a pre-tape.
Put that on first, and then you put the actual tape
that's gonna do the mechanical.
- This is all this is doing, is protecting the skin.
This is not doing anything as far as providing arch support.
This is the one that's gonna give you some
actually stretch and pull up and make the arch.
And that's called a Leukotape P,
I guess that's what it's called on this one.
So a real strong tape.
- This, don't get it confused with kinesio tape.
That tape actually stretches, it is not gonna
give you the information or the support that you need.
- Give you arch support, right, that will not work.
You're exactly right.
So very simple technique here.
So I've already got a great arch, but nonetheless,
we're gonna show you the technique anyway.
So you take the cover roll
and cut off some slices here.
I'm gonna make a mess of this, Brad.
- Uh oh. - Uh oh, if you get it
to stick and I recovered luckily.
- [Brad] So it has a backing, it is split, so you just peel
off as you can see, you have to do it carefully
so it doesn't wrinkle.
- [Bob] If you can go down here, Liz, so there's the head
of the metatarsal here, kind of a big bump here,
I would go below that, closer to your body, and again,
this one's not doing anything right now
except protecting the skin.
So I'm gonna put one there, it's gonna wrap up
to the top of the foot.
- [Brad] You can pull it snug.
- [Bob] Yeah, you can.
- [Brad] You don't want wrinkles in it,
but you're not really pulling hard on it.
- [Bob] I've got some wrinkles in there, Brad,
but it'll be okay.
And then I'm gonna go a little further down the arch yet
and wrap it up around the top here.
So just two pieces of tape into the arch,
and now I'm gonna take the leukotape,
I already cut some off here, and I'm gonna start down again,
down in the arch, and I'm gonna pull
and bring it up and around.
- [Brad] It's pulling up over the top of the foot.
- [Bob] Could've been a little bit longer, even on that,
but this'll still do the job.
And second one, I'm gonna go ahead,
and again start in the arch, and again pull.
- [Brad] Up and over. - [Bob] Yep. Pull in this way.
- [Brad] You know, you can lap it a little bit,
that's not a problem.
- [Bob] And that is all you do.
- Right, now, this tape, you'll know you got the right tape,
'cause when you pull it, it is really hard to pull off.
It really has a good adhesive.
One warning is, it's possible that if you're allergic
to adhesives, band-aids and stuff, don't even try this.
- Yeah, if you're very sensitive,
your skin is very sensitive, Brad and I use this tape
all the time on people who have problems with their kneecap,
and I've had people use this tape for weeks
without a problem, and all of a sudden, third week,
the skin became irritated.
And sometimes, it becomes quite irritated, I mean, red and
so if you feel any itching or irritation,
you've got to take the tape off.
And if it's red, like if you see a red mark on there,
I'm sorry, you're just not gonna be able to tape on it.
- Yeah, it should feel comfortable, especially in your shoe
after it gets some perspiration in there.
- So when I stand now, and Brad,
you've already taped your foot too,
when we stand here, you can feel it.
It's pulling and it's holding that arch up,
and you know, if you have plantar fasciitis,
and throughout the day, it's wanting to heal,
and then you step on it, it breaks open again,
this'll help prevent that.
This'll give you the support
so it doesn't break open as easy.
So it's a great thing to try, we'll have links
on the website for these two products.
And again, check out the other videos as part of the series.
- There you go. Thanks for watching.
- Thank you.