Patent ID: 8742196

Claim:
An adhesive support system, comprising: an adhesive support article for supporting a body part of a user, comprising: a single-sided high-stretch adhesive support tape blank precut into a sheet having a central anchoring portion and a plurality of fingers extending outwardly from the central anchoring portion; the sheet being marked with visual indicators to guide the user of the support article for: applying the central anchoring portion onto a first exterior surface of the body part; and stretching the fingers a predetermined distance away from the central anchoring portion according to the marked indicators and adhesively applying the fingers to a second exterior surface of the body part spaced away from the first exterior surface to support the body part by tethering the first and second exterior surfaces together without wrapping completely around the user's body at any point; and at least one adhesive body landmark article for adhering to an identifiable body landmark of the user to aid in gauging how far to stretch the fingers of the support article to adhere the fingers to the second exterior surface according to the marked indicators.