ESSENTIALS OF PALPATION AND TAPING WORKSHOP
Dr. Prahlad Priyadarshi took a workshop on the essentials of palpation and taping on 24th & 25th March 2023 at the Department of Physiotherapy, Teerthanker Mahaveer University.
Dr. Prahlad Priyadarshi is a BCCI level one physiotherapist in the Sports Authority of India. He is now the proud senior physiotherapist of the Indian cycling team and gymnast. He has graduated with a Bachelor of Physiotherapy degree from UHER, Patna, and earned a Master in sports physiotherapy degree from SBS PGI Dehradun Uttarakhand.
He was a physiotherapist in the Asian games in 2016 and 2018. He was also associated with the boxing team in 2019 and the Haryana Cricket association from 2012 to 2014.
On day 1 of the workshop, lecture and hands-on approach was taken on palpation by Dr. Prahlad Priyadarshi, in which he covered all the major Bony landmarks, muscle, and ligament palpations on the human body, starting with the palpations of the ankle in which he mainly taught about the foot arch index, navicular drop test and the Bony palpations of the bones of the ankle followed by the leg bones Tibia and fibula and then the knee in which he taught about Patella and the condition associated with Patella like Patella Baja/Alta, Medial/lateral shift of the Patella, and Greater trochanter palpations. In the upper limb, he covered the significant palpations around the shoulder complex, followed by the palpations around the elbow and wrist joints.
On day 2, the workshop continued with taping on various joints and muscles where he introduced the types of tapes relevant to sports injury. He started with a rigid tape introduction and its techniques of application to get joint stability like J-Lock, V- lock on the ankle followed by patellar deformities correction by rigid tape along with techniques of kinesio tape application on conditions like plantar fasciitis, Osgood-Schlatter disease, patellar twist, adductor strain, and ankle sprain.With progression to taping on Day 2, he taught Kinesio-taping for the upper limb in case of shoulder instability, drainage of edema, tennis elbow, jersey finger, De Quervain's tenosynovitis and ruptured tendon of fingers and concluded the session.
The workshop was insightful for the students to understand their profession better.
