How To Tape A Foot For Severs Disease

Heel pain in young athletes 🦶🏼
A condition called Severs Disease is a common cause of heel pain in young athletes. Inflammation of the growth plates in the calcaneus (heel bone) is caused by a combination of rapid skeletal growth and traction forces from the Achilles tendon.
Dr Michael Benporath has used the black Dynamic Tape Eco to offload the Achilles tendon and provide a compressive force around the back of the calcaneus to reduce heel pain during sporting activity.
This taping technique should only be performed by trained healthcare professionals. It's vital that if your child is experiencing heel pain during sport that they get assessed and diagnosed by your healthcare provider.
Prime Health Co. is a chiropractic & musculoskeletal clinic in Newmarket, Brisbane. For more information or bookings please go to our website: primehealthco.com.au/

[@jojolovin4412]

What tape is this

[@primehealthco_]

It's called Dynamic Tape

[@jeffborkowski]

what was the spray?

[@bobbins2408]

adhesive spray (helps it stick i think)

[@savvydanee]

If this poor kid had severs you hurt the crap out of him. Squeezing the side of the heel like that would be incredibly painful.

[@primehealthco_]

In my experience I have found that the athletes that I have performed this taping technique on feel a noticeable decrease in heel pain. I make sure that I test before and after applying the tape and if it made their heel pain worse I would take it off immediately (thankfully I haven't had to do that yet 😊)
Would this technique help every child with Sever's Disease? Maybe, maybe not. But for the ones that I've used it on I've only had positive feedback.