Patellar Tendinitis Tape

[FLAHL]

I’ve had a couple of players show up with what appears to be 1/4 inch tape circling their legs just below the knee. It looks just like the bicep bands that are illegal, but it’s flexible tape of some kind. One said it’s a treatment of some kind for patellar tendinitis. Is this legal, or is it an adornment?  Thanks.

[KDJBBBJ]

We have been told that the patellar tendinitis bands are legal equipment.  I did have a coach the other day tell me he thinks his players are just trying to get around the bicep band rule because it was just tape and not the real bands.  I asked the trainer and she told me that they were for the tendinitis so we let them stay.  if the trainer had said no we would have had them take it off.   https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41mxB1V2AIL._SX425_.jpg

[AlUpstateNY]

Never underestimate the creativity of the American teenager (or willfully gullible coach). 

As these devices clearly pose the same injury threat as the "bicep band", might these devices rationally be considered a type of knee brace (protective pad support device) and therefore be subject to NFHS 1-5-1-d2 and/or e, by requiring the device to be covered by the players pants? (Which would genuinely reduce the both injury threat, as well as the "adornment" appeal).

[CalhounLJ]

What about K tape? I’ve seen it in the arms and calves. Where do we draw the line? I say let em play with it.


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[bama_stripes]

If a trainer tells me that a band is for medical purposes, I’m letting him wear it.  I’d rather allow a “fake adornment” than have a player suffer an injury because I didn’t let him wear it.

(I’m sure my legal advisor would approve of this philosophy.)

[HLinNC]

Its usually just rolled up pieces of foam pre-wrap.  I learned about it when my son was playing.  I at first thought it was an adornment but our school's ATC set me straight.  It saves from buying a strap off the shelf of your local drug or discount store.  I even keep a roll in the truck now for when my knee starts giving me fits when I go for a run.

It is NOT the same thing as a bicep band which is really nothing more than a skinny terrycloth sweatband, albeit with the Nike or UA logo affixed