I ripped off my calluses somehow while bouldering, and they’re super raw now. Thanks for teaching me how to put on tape right! Hopefully they’ll heal fast…
I went climbing today and I was doing a 5.10 on top rope and about 1/4 through the climb I see blood on the hold I am on and in my mind I am like oh my gosh that's quite a lot of blood! I look at my right hand and on the tip of my finger it is drenched in blood on my palm side and I call down to one of the instructors who happened to be belaying me and I kept apologizing for getting blood all over the hold and at the end for some reason they ran out of band aids so I had to weirdly tape my finger.
Buddy taping! Yes, That works well to support the area when you're not climbing. It just gets a bit impractical on the wall. You get fairly cheap finger braces too, which even allows you to keep climbing - but puts more strain on the other fingers and forearm. Best plan is to hold off climbing, let it heal, start some rehab to strengthen it up and then ease back into climbing with the tape on.