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Location: MN | Been checking out Back on Track products. Just for maintenence and keeping em feeling good. Been looking at the leg wraps especially. What are your thoughts, opinions and experiences with BOT products? |
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Hungarian Midget Woman
 
Location: Midwest | I like them, but the only drawback is that I don't use them much when it is hot because it is a heat based therapy.
I really like them more for warming up joints prior to riding or running in the winter time. |
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  Angel in a Sorrel Coat
Posts: 16030
 
Location: In a happy place | This is OT for exactly what you are asking. A friend bought me a shirt for problems I am having after masectomy. All it has done is to make me swell excessively in the surgery site. So....JMHO.....I don't know if I want to use their boots on my horse. |
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 Cute Little Imp
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Location: N Texas | I have been using the quick wraps for over a year now and love them! They are so easy to use and the horse I use them on has had zero issues with swelling. I've left them on in hot, 100 degree weather with no problems. I originally got them to help heal his tendons after surgery and I honestly do believe they have helped with his recovery. I now use them as a post-workout therapy to help alleviate soreness in his tendons.
I have read some comments about horses having issues with swelling, so I would start out using them about an hour or two the first day, and work your way up. With my horse, I can go a couple weeks of no use, and then leave them on for 12 hours with no side effects. I've also left them on longer than 12 hours. |
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 Accident Prone
Posts: 22277
Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | sorrel horse ranch - 2014-07-21 10:16 AM
This is OT for exactly what you are asking. A friend bought me a shirt for problems I am having after masectomy. All it has done is to make me swell excessively in the surgery site. So....JMHO.....I don't know if I want to use their boots on my horse.
There's a place for heat and a place for cold therapy. Sounds like you're in need of cold therapy. I've been using the no-bows on my horse that has thinned cartilage/poor quality joint fluid in his front fetlocks and they do help him. I experimented with poultice, sweat, wrap with nothing, and BOT and the sweat and BOT are the ones that helped him the most for that issue. |
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Elite Veteran
Posts: 702
Location: MN | Do they help with soreness?? Thanks for all the opinions!! |
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Hungarian Midget Woman
Location: Midwest | They help a lot with stiffness due to chronic arthritis. I use the hock wraps prior to riding more than I use my quick wraps. I prefer the cooling of a poultice after runs. |
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The Advice Guru
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| Rule of thumb is ice for acute injuries and heat for chronic injuries.
With my arthritic horse I would ice him after each run then I would apply heat. Heat stimulates blood flow to the area to remove toxins, repair damaged cells, and fight infection.
Cold reduces blood flow, prevents an influx of inflammatory cells from arriving therefore reducing inflammation and reducing more damage to the injury. |
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| JUST FYI
It is my understanding that it is best to introduce the product slowly, becuase it increases bloodflow. Leaving it on for only 10 minutes at a time then slowly working up to longer periods of time! Otherwise IT WILL CAUSE SWELLING DUE TO RAPID INCREASE OF BLOOD FLOW |
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