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Bandaging Techniques

Circular bandaging is used to hold dressings in place on various body parts. It involves applying overlapping layers of a roller or triangular bandage around the body part. Spiral bandaging is typically used on cylindrical body parts, with each turn covering about 1/3 of the preceding layer. Figure-of-eight bandaging involves two crossing turns above and below a joint. Recurrent bandaging covers blunt body parts with overlapping turns applied from side to side.

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Bandaging Techniques

Circular bandaging is used to hold dressings in place on various body parts. It involves applying overlapping layers of a roller or triangular bandage around the body part. Spiral bandaging is typically used on cylindrical body parts, with each turn covering about 1/3 of the preceding layer. Figure-of-eight bandaging involves two crossing turns above and below a joint. Recurrent bandaging covers blunt body parts with overlapping turns applied from side to side.

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BANDAGING TECHNIQUES

CIRCULAR BANDAGING

Circular bandaging is used to hold dressings on body parts such as arms, legs, chest or
abdomen or for starting others bandaging techniques.
For circular bandage we used strips of cloth or gauze roller bandage or triangular
bandage folded down to form strip of bandage (cravat).
In the circular bandaging technique the layers of bandage are applied over the top of
each other:
With the roll on the inner aspect, unroll the bandage either toward you or laterally,
holding the loose end until it is secured by the first circle of the bandage.
Two or three turns may be needed to cover an area adequately. Hold the bandage in
place with tape or a clip.
Almost all bandaging techniques start and end with a few circular bandaging
Spiral bandaging

Spiral bandages are usually used for cylindrical parts of the body. An elasticated bandage can
also be used to apply spiral bandaging to a tapered body part. Despite the increasing diameter of
the body part, the elasticity will allow the bandage to fit closely to the skin.
With each spiral turn, part of the preceding turn is covered generally by 1/3 of the width of the
bandage.

Figure 6. Spiral bandage

Figure-of-eight bandage involves two turns, with the strips of bandage crossing each other at the
side where the joint flexes or extends. It is usually used to bind a flexing joint or body part
below and above the joint.
The figure-of-eight bandage can be applied using a roller bandage in two ways:

Following a circular turn around the middle of the joint, the bandage should fan out upwards and
downwards. The turns should cross at the side where the limb flexes.
The figure-of-eight turns can also be applied from a starting point located below or above the
joint crease, working towards the joint itself. The cross-over points will be located at either the
flexing or extending side of the joint; the side where the turns do not cross remains uncovered.
Figure 7. Figure-of-eight bandage
Recurrent bandaging is used for blunt body parts consists partly of recurrent turns.

The bandage is applied repeatedly from one side across the top to the other side of the blunt body
part. To be able to fix the recurrent turns well, not only the wound, but the entire length of the
blunt body part should be covered.
Depending on the width of the bandage and the body part, successive turns either cover the
preceding turn fully or partially.

Recurrent bandages are fixed using circular or spiral turns.

Figure 8. Recurrent bandage

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