Compression bandage according to Sigg
When applying a compression bandage according to Sigg, you start as described above with an understocking and careful padding. The first of the two required compression bandages is then applied to the outer edge of the back of the foot. The toes remain free, while the rest of the foot is always wrapped from the outside to the inside in a bottom-up direction.
The area of the heel is particularly important and must also be carefully bandaged. At no time should wrinkles or creases occur. These wraps around the foot, heel and ankle are continued until the first bandage has been completely used up.
It can be easily fixed with two strips of bandage.Only after that, the second compression bandage is applied, this time above the ankle, as the foot area has already been sufficiently wrapped. The Sigg compression bandage is applied to the outside of the lower leg far below, initially with a ring-shaped wrap. The next round leads slightly offset from the outside to the inside, pointing inwards towards the knee.
This wrapping is followed by one that also points slightly diagonally from outside to inside towards the foot. This results in a crossing of the wrapped tracks. Now the wraps are alternately diagonally towards the knee and diagonally towards the foot until just below the hollow of the knee. After a final straight wrapping to stabilize the compression bandage, the ends of the second compression bandage are also fixed with plaster strips before the tubular bandage is pulled over the entire lower leg and fixed. The overlapping wrapping produces the so-called grain-needle pattern typical of Sigg compression bandages.
Compression bandage according to Pütter
The compression bandage according to Pütter is wrapped a little differently than the grain ears bandage according to Sigg described above. Thus, after the understocking and absorbent cotton padding, the first compression bandage is applied to the inner side of the back of the foot – the bandage is unwound from the inside to the outside. After the foot including the heel has been wrapped well, the technique goes directly to the lower leg according to Pütter.
Round for round the compression bandage evenly surrounds the lower leg – always from the inside to the outside and from the foot towards the knee. When wrapping with the first bandage, gaps may remain on the lower leg when applying the bandage according to Pütter, and they are then covered with the second bandage. The last round of the first compression bandage should run straight and below the hollow of the knee and be fixed there.
The wrapping of the second compression bandage now begins again on the back of the foot – but this time on the outer side. Analogous to the first bandage, the second one is wrapped slowly upwards around the foot, heel and lower leg. Since the direction now runs from the outside to the inside, both bandages automatically cross over each other. Any gaps that may still exist can now be closed to create a uniform, even compression bandage. After fixing the second bandage, the underlining tube is knocked upwards and fixed below the knee also in the compression bandage according to Pütter.
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