If you frequently need to tape for a sports event or injury, then this is the book for you. It’s not a book just for the pros. It’s a book for the rest of us with just enough hand holding that you don’t feel like it’s out of your league.
Book Features
136 pages 50 color illustrations and photos, 60 anatomical images, photos illustrate taping sequences and feature tape with darkened edges so you can distinguish layers and patterns of tape applied at each step.
Sport Taping Basics Book Athletic Taping and Bracing - 2nd Edition (Book)  Athletic Taping and Bracing Book and DVD - 2nd Edition
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Improvements in the second edition
| Book Contents See photos above for picture of table of contents. Copyrighted material. Chapter 1. Introduction to Taping and Bracing
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Although the first edition was good and quite popular, this second edition is a significant improvement over the first. So make sure you are buying the SECOND edition. There are far more photos and illustrations in this edition than last. The new edition follows the guidelines of NATA, National Athletic Trainers’ Association (NATA).
Emphasizes Rehabilitation and Prevention
This book even good for those who are just beginning in the field of athletic training or perhaps want to see if they have any interest in that field of study because it teaches the foundation and core of taping technique.
What I liked is that it tells you the goal of the taping method. For instance what the taping is intended to support in order to prevent something or help you heal from injury.
It also includes stretching and strengthening techniques so you that limit your dependence on taping and bracing and begin to heal the right way.
Thorough with lots of photos
DVD Contents Covers Taping Skills including cutting, tearing and removing sports tape.Lower Body Upper Body |
It is one of the most complete and thorough taping guides available with clear, concise color pictures that are of sufficient size and detail coupled with clear and concise explanations of anatomy.
You are not dropped off in left field with seriously scientific phrases without explanation or reference to anatomy. It not only shows you, it details technique.
The DVD is a recommended companion
Sometimes you just need to see it done. And the DVD adds value to what you read in the book by showing you how it’s done.
Contents of the DVD are shown in this review listing. By using both reference guides, you can truly get a good start on bracing and taping and doing it correctly.
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