(Semi-urgent) Is it safe to bind while playing my clarinet? I am using double sports bras and I am playing for about an hour a day.
Can I bind while doing x?
Doing normal routine stuff that won’t raise your heart rate
While taking a walk or light bike ride
While playing an instrument that requires breath
While singing (singing in the car is okay, choral singing or any singing where you need good breath control is not)
While moshing/screaming/dancing at a concert
While swimming (unless you have a specific swimming binder)
On roller coasters/thrill rides
While getting a first tattoo
When you’re sick (if you’re coughing or having a hard time breathing)
When you’re visiting somewhere that is much hotter than temperatures that you are used to (vacations)
When you have a chest/torso injury, are recovering from improper binding, etc.
What are the general safety rules of binding?
Don’t sleeping with your binder on at night
Don’t do any vigorous exercising in a binder- no things that get your heartrate up and make you breathe heavily and sweat
Don’t bind for more than 12 hours maximum, 8 hours to be safer
Break in a binder - don’t go straight to 8 hours of use
Never bind too small, use the right size (if between sizes, go up)
Never use ACE bandages or tape
Take it off if you’re experiencing pain
Don’t bind when you’re sick with a cough
Do not double bind! Don’t wear a binder and another binder on top, or a binder and a compression sports bra. Two sports bras are okay though.
Binding with two sports bras is still binding, and the same rules about wearing a binder apply to sports bra binding!
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