An improved adhesive dressing assembly comprising an adhesive dressing and first and second backing sheets. The adhesive dressing comprises a sheet of flexible material with a first face and a second face with a central section and first and second arm sections extending in opposite directions from the central section. The sheet of flexible material is folded back on itself at a first fold between the central section and the first arm section and a second fold between the central section and the second arm section so that the first surface of the sheet of flexible material faces outward in all of the sections. The second surface of the central section is opposed to the second surface of the first arm section and the second arm section and the first surface is adhesive on at least a part of each section. The first backing sheet is releasably adhered to the first surface of the first arm section and the second backing sheet is releasably adhered to the first surface of the second arm section. Each backing sheet has a tab biased outwardly away from the respective arm section and the assembly has a grip portion extending outwardly away from the central section.