Meniscus taping

Use A meniscus taping can be applied to those athletes with an injury or weakness medially or laterally to provide extra support. Possible injuries would include medial and lateral meniscal tears. The purpose of this tape job was to provide extra support for a baseball pitcher with a possible medial meniscus tear/injury.

When performing this tape job have an athlete stand up on a higher surface with their heel resting on an object, for example a roll of athletic tape. To start, two support strips are applied using powerflex one proximal around mid thigh, and the other distal around about mid calf.

Next using 3 inch powerflex for larger athletes, a strip is applied starting from the distal lateral leg up to medial proximal leg so that it hugs the knee without covering the patella.

Using this same idea, a second strip is applied this time starting proximal and lateral down to distal medial anchor strip as pictured.

The third strip will go from the distal anchor straight up to the proximal enter where the previous strips crossed so that it runs along the medial leg.

This process is repeated two times. You can change from going proximal-distal and distal-proximal to add extra support. When the second layer is finished the anchors are repeated proximal and distal to hold down the ends of the powerflex.

Finally, you close off the powerflex with one continuous strip of athletic tape to secure the tape job.