Wearing long socks over the shin pads can further protect the legs from turf burns. Some studies suggest using sliding pads or sticky bandages to form a barrier between the skin and the turf.

Turf burn is an abrasion caused by friction from an artificial lawn. Treatment involves cleaning the wound and applying antiseptic to prevent infections. If you play football, soccer, or hockey ...

Doctors here are testing the skin of the popular fish as a bandage for second- and third-degree burns. The innovation arose from an unmet need. Animal skin has long been used in the treatment of ...

When a burn wound is healing, it's usually highly susceptible to infection, and bandages often make the situation worse, acting as breeding grounds for harmful microbes. A new bandage developed by ...

not only of burns but also various other types of wounds such as lacerations or skin ulcers, pathologies," Athanassiou added. Importantly, the bandage naturally degrades within a few days ...

British scientists have developed “living bandages,” made from a patient’s own cells, which speed healing for burns and diabetes sufferers. The biological bandages, launched at the British ...

Sophomore quarterback Kyle Padron wore a bandage with some padding on the outside of his left thigh Monday morning to protect a turf burn that he got Saturday. Padron slid on multiple occasions to ...