Lab 1: Prevention Startegies and Procedures

Lab 1: Prevention Strategies and Procedures Complete the following activities during your lab class under the guidance of your instructor. Objectives of Lab: • Describe the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) universal precautions for the prevention, exposure, and control of infectious disease. • Explain the types, objectives, and application recommendations for taping, wrapping, bracing, and padding techniques used when preventing, treating, and rehabilitating injuries. • Demonstrate selection of the appropriate types of tapes, wraps, braces, and pads used with various sport-related injuries. • Describe the use and fabrication of thermoplastic padding. Lab Activity 1: Universal Precautions in an Athletic Environment Demonstrate proper hand washing as instructed. Wash hands for 30 seconds before and after you put gloves on. Practice the proper application and removal of disposable gloves. 1. When should gloves be worn by a health care professional? Gloves should be worn by a health care professional when they are dealing with blood, saliva, urine or feces. 2. List other supplies and personal protective equipment associated with universal precautions. a. Cleaning and disinfection b. Apron, goggles, face shield c. Hand hygiene d. Needlestick and sharps injury prevention e. Waste disposal f. Respiratory hygiene Lab Activity 2: Application of Taping, Wrapping, Bracing, and Padding Examine and explore the various types of materials associated with taping, wrapping, bracing, and padding. After exploring the various tapes in the athletic training setting, practice using elastic and nonelastic taping of various joints and extremities. In this activity, create an orthoplastic splint for an instructor-assigned pathology. Practice tearing nonelastic and elastic tape, as instructed. 1. Briefly list and describe the three main categories of tape. a. Non elastic tape b. Elastic Tape c. Cast 2. Summarize the general recommendations when applying nonelastic and elastic tapes. a. Preparation of the individual. Clean and dry the skin to ensure that there aren’t any lotions, body oils, etc on them that could make the tape come loose. b. Tearing the tape. Learn how to properly tear different types of tape. c. Applying non-elastic and elastic tape. Apply the tape to the individual using the correct technique based on their injury. 3. Briefly compare and contrast the two main categories of pads. a. Soft low-density pads are light and comfortable because of air in the material. They are used to lessen friction, cover wound dressings and attach pads to the body b. Hard, High density pads are made from harder materials to protect the individual from forces at high impact levels. In equal groups, identify and find the appropriate taping, wrapping, and padding materials and techniques associated with the management and treatment of the condition/injury assigned by your instructor. Be prepared to present rationale for your selection to the other groups in class. 4. In the space below, list your condition, materials, and technique selected. Lab Activity 3: Case Scenarios 1. During a basketball game, one of the players sustains a nosebleed. Blood is visible on the player’s jersey and skin. What actions need to take place before the game can resume? 2 In order for the game to resume we need to make sure that all blood is off of the floor and there is no blood on any of the athlete’s jerseys or skin. 2. During basketball practice, several players begin to complain of a burning sensation over the posterior heel area. Prior to practice, you applied a preventative taping technique to their ankles. You remove the tape and discover irritation of the skin over the posterior heel of each player. How can you treat and prevent the skin irritation? We can treat the players by applying second skin to the irritated portion of the posterior heel and then put a heel and lace pad over the second skin and do a preventative ankle tape job that is not as tight to ensure that their skin wont become irritated again. 3. The starting right offensive tackle on your football team has a second-degree ulnar collateral ligament sprain of the left thumb. Your team physician will allow him to return to play if the player is placed in a semirigid thumb spica cast. Explain the process of how to create this splint, including what materials could be used. We would cut a piece of arthroplasty and place it in the hydrocollator to get it warm enough to mold, then we would mold the arthroplasty to the ulnar side of the thumb and make sure that there weren’t any rough edges to cut the athlete. We would then do thumb spicas with self adherent elastic tape. 3