Eight-shaped Petit headband

Bandages: Eight-shaped

Bandages are a type of bandage that has a healing effect on certain parts of the body. It is often used in medicine to provide immobility and immobilization of limbs. One of the most common types of bandages is the figure-of-eight bandage.

General **A figure-of-eight bandage** is a fixation bandage used on an area of ​​injury or surgery to provide comfort, support and stabilization to the patient. These dressings are designed to be easily removed through the wound or cast area. They are a triangular piece of tissue, usually in the shape of a figure eight (which is why they are called "eights"), which is individually applied to the periphery of the injured limb

Features of figure-of-eight bandage therapy with figure-of-eight bandage

Features of loop-of-eight therapy are determined by the characteristics of the local tissue reaction, the rate of decrease in circulating blood volume, as well as the local conditions of tissue blood supply. Typically, figure-of-eight loop therapy consists of a combination of the following steps:

- Circumferential pressure (decompression) on the peripheral blood vessels, which, with low compression, allows you to increase blood pressure and blood flow velocity in certain areas of the tissues of the limb. Although this dressing may not have the effect of increasing pressure on the deep segments of the peripheral vessels, it can stimulate the natural patency of the peripheral veins. - Proper support of arterial circulation in the peripheral vascular bed. At all sites located peripheral to the pressure sensors, therapeutic levels of pressure (and pulsatility) remain higher (or only slightly lower) than oxygenated tissue flow, cardiac output, and even peripheral arterial resistance (in many cases). - Effective reduction of heart and lung occlusion. In some cases, the etiology of AD and arteriosclerosis does not differ from the level of blood pressure in the paravascular segment. This area of ​​veins along the venous collateral band is usually represented by dilatation of muscle elastic elements, constriction due to contraction of peristaltic muscles and other mechanisms that reduce venous volumetric flow rate (which can be considered the equivalent of a venous pressure gradient). To

A “petit-eight” bandage is the application of a rubber or other elastic bandage in the form of intersecting stripes in the shape of the number “8”, starting from the base of the thumb and passing through six transverse stripes of the first finger of the hand. The bandage is applied so that the upper horizontal part of the figure eight covers the first three fingers, and the lower horizontal part covers the last two pairs of fingers. Bandaging is done from the bottom up, i.e. from the fingertips through the wrist joint, forearm, elbow joint to the torso, the ends of the abductor bandages are carried out with the bandage shifted to the dorsum of the wrist joint. The rounds of the bandage should fit one to one, the tension of the bandage becomes weaker after each round. The ends of the bandage are crossed, directing them over the fingers (“tails”) - when bandaging is completed.