Crossfitters: How do you take care of a hand rip

JayandJack

I guess it's a rite of passage. I've been crossfitting over a year and I did an extra workout tonight with my coach and my hands ripped. It's four different places.

What's the best way to take care of them? 

JW28

Ouch! I've been really lucky that my calluses have never ripped off and left me bleeding, but for four years I watched my fellow rowers apply copious amounts of tape to their hands, and in the past few months I've seen Crossfitters do the same. I think when you're not working out, antibiotic ointment and light bandaging (band-aid or tape maybe), to keep it soft and clean. Then if you're working out, lots of tape, so that you can't re-rip any healing skin.

Brie2010

I just tape over them.

SoftSpot

Fill them with Gorilla glue!

nerdsbride

I clean them really good. Then I triple layer the New Skin stuff on it. Beware, it burns. When I WOD I tape if I'm torn. If you tape over the new skin stuff, it will pull the skin stuff off FYI. Also, when you tape, don't tape horizontally around your hands, tape over your fingers down to your wrists and then wrap around the bottom near your wrists. If you tape just around your hand then the second you use it, it bunches up and becomes useless. The other way looks ridiculous but it stays where it needs to and will protect much better.

hikerbeth

Tea tree oil to disinfect.  Vitamin E oil to heal.  I also use a Burt's Bee's chapstick on it as the skin starts to dry out (and tends to crack again).

If there's a flap, I'd recommend super glueing it down instead of cutting it off.  The flap will eventually fall off, but it keeps the really tender skin protected during the first few days when it hurts a lot.

eta: and tape grips or gymnastic grips during WOD until it heals.