- Welcome back everybody.
I've had a couple of requests, believe it or not,
for how to fold sheets and how to do draping.
So today is gonna be on that.
So here is my little bundle of fresh washed sheets,
fresh out of the oven, I mean they're hot
and they're not out of the oven they're out of the dryer.
So let's take the first sheet, this is the flat sheet,
and I can tell you that go with the right side up
and go halfway and just kinda measure where halfway is
and here I am stumbling with it a little bit
and then I go to the other half, fold it again in half,
and a quarter, straighten it out, halfway again,
half, half, half.
So here's a flat sheet.
Here's the fitted sheet and I go to the corners,
the lengthwise.
I stick my fingers in the two corners that are lengthwise.
I put the two together, I pull it over,
I go to the other side, get my fingers in the other corner,
put my fingers together again, over.
It looks like a little rectangle.
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And this one didn't come out as nice.
And there it is.
So let's try one more just so that you get the hang of it.
So I go to the right side, cut it in half, measure,
another half, another half, another half.
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There it is.
I go lengthwise.
That wasn't lengthwise so I'm going lengthwise
to the two corners, get the two corners,
middle fingers, whatever you like,
whatever works for you put it over.
Other two corners.
Looks like a little rectangle.
This one came out much nicer.
There it is.
Now that you've got your sheets all nice and folded
and that's how you fold,
and that's how you fold a fitted sheet and a flat sheet.
So now I'm also gonna show you how to do some draping.
My rule of thumb is I step out of my room
so that the client can change.
I leave it up to them how they feel comfortable.
So when I walk in
there's males that leave it all the way up here,
there's males that leave it down to the waist
and I'm okay with that because remember we tell them
to their level of comfort.
So if they feel comfortable like this I'm okay with it.
For females, obviously they're gonna go all the way up
and drape themselves and some of 'em,
I've had some that really drape even all the way up here.
And if they're this modest, this tells me a lot about them
and how conservative they are.
So if they're draped this high,
I try just to fold it down like maybe an inch or two,
not as slow as I would normally do to get the pecks.
You can always work the pecks over the sheet.
Now if you're gonna do abdominal work
then you definitely need to bring the drape down
and then you are able to work the abdomen
and if you have a female client
you put a towel first to drape 'em
and then you pull this from underneath
and hold the towel up here
and then you pull from underneath
and expose them to do the abdominal area.
So let's say that we are done with the head and the neck
and now we're gonna do the arm.
So all I do is holding at the arm here
I just bring the drape over
and then I tuck it in right underneath at the waist,
right at the waist.
You never wanna do anything hear the breast
or near the genital area.
But right here at the waist I tuck it in really good.
So now it frees up the arm and I can work on the arm.
And once I'm done I grab it from this side
and just drape back up.
And the same with the leg.
I start at the foot and then I go ahead and grab it,
lift it up about an inch or two
and then just tuck it in underneath
and tuck it in at the waist.
This is all I'm doing, tucking in right at the waist
and tucking in underneath here
and tuck it in all the way through.
You work the leg and if you need to do stretches
then you ask your client to hold the sheet
to their level of comfort
so that they have control of how tight it is
and then you can do your lifts or stretches
or whatever it is you're doing.
And once you're done with that
then you just pull the sheet from down below here
and you cover them back up.
You don't even have to go near up there again.
So there you have it and then what I do
is I bring it all, put their arms and their leg underneath
and then I ask 'em to turn over so from supine to prone
Then I prepare the headrest first
and once the headrest is set then I ask my client,
they turn away from me because if they turn this way
it's bringing personal space towards me
so I prefer that they turn away from me
so I just tell 'em to turn over, I lift the sheet
so they can have the space, make like a little tent,
and then you have it.
They just move up on their own and then you drape it,
you bring it down to the waist.
Another thing that I wanna tell you.
If you're gonna work the glute area you just uncover.
You fold here in the middle and just uncover
the side that you're gonna be working on right here okay?
You don't have to uncover.
You don't have to bring it down all the way on both sides.
You have to keep this area covered here
and just uncover the area that you're working on.
You don't want to expose everything.
So this is to work the back and the glutes and the hips.
And again, if you need to you tuck it in at the leg
and tuck it in at the waist.
So then now you're done.
Let's say you're gonna move now to the leg.
If it's cold you wanna drape 'em,
you wanna cover them back up.
When you move to the leg and they are prone
you do the same thing.
You bring the leg and you grab the sheet right here
and just tuck it in right at the thigh
and over here at the waist.
You tuck it in at the waist
and then I tuck it in all the way
and if they need bolster, if they have back pain,
you put a bolster in.
Oh, so now let me show you side lying.
Now once you're done working the leg
you just pull the sheet out, that's it,
they're covered again.
So now for the side lying
in case you wanna do some specific work
you wanna make sure that you get the pillow
for the cervical area ready so that you can support it
as soon as they turn over.
So then your client turns again away from you on the table,
comes down a few inches, and then you give 'em the support
of the cervicals right away
and then you wanna support the top leg.
Bottom leg is straight and you wanna support the top leg
and this raises the hip
especially for people that sleep side lying,
which is really a better way to sleep,
you wanna make sure and support this leg right here.
And if you're gonna do side lying
you ask your client to bring out their arm,
so they bring out their arm,
and then they have control over it here
and then you tuck it in here in the front.
And then you can go back to the back.
Let's say you're working the scapula here or the back
or a pregnant woman and then you just uncover the part
and tuck in at the bottom.
I'm tucking right by the waist at the bottom here
and the person keeps control of the sheet,
they hold it with their arm right here.
So you're just exposing the back right here.
And for the leg, let me go back over this way again,
and if you're gonna work,
let's say you're working the IT band
or the tensor fasciae latae you tuck in right here
and then right here at the leg
and then you can just kinda roll it up
and here you have, this is what I'm doing.
Tucking in the sheet from about four inches down
and then the leg is exposed right here.
This is the perfect way to work the IT band,
the vastus lateralis, and even the semimembranosus,
tendinosus, all of this is exposed right here
and it's a great way to work.
Once you're done working, like I said,
all you gotta do is pull the sheet from the bottom part
and then it is very neat and very easy.
Now for people that can't lay down flat
like pregnant woman after the second trimester
they can't lay down flat 'cause the aortic artery
can get pressed by the baby.
So especially the baby gains weight
the last two months of pregnancy
so they can't lay down flat anymore so I have a wedge,
as you can see this wedge.
And I usually have it ready before my client comes in.
So women that are pregnant, people that get vertigo,
people that have had tummy tucks they can't lay down flat.
There are several people
that really feel more comfortable like this.
I have a client that has severe back injuries
and this is way more comfortable for her.
So having a wedge ready so when they come in
they drape themselves, they lay themselves down,
and I still do have a little towel right here
tucked in at the cervicals.
You always wanna support the cervicals
and then remove it if you're gonna do neck work
and then just drape the same.
Drape the same like if you're going around
wherever you started you start on that side or this side.
So just remember, for somebody that can't lay down flat
the wedge is a really nice option
and that you wanna make sure and support the cervicals
and also I know that I get this question asked a lot
from my clients when they first walk in
it's like what do I leave on, what do I take off?
And I always tell them to undress
to their level of comfort.
Some people feel comfortable leaving their underwear on.
Some people doesn't matter
or they really want you to work the low back.
So I always leave it up to them.
We want to respect the client
and respect what they're ready for you to work on
and how they feel comfortable on your table.
So I hope this gives you another option,
several options to look at some new draping
and incorporate some of the things that we just learned
and till the next time, create a good day.
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