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Home > Advice > BANDAGES: HOW TO APPLY THEM CORRECTLY > Stable bandages
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Training bandages, stable bandages, polo wraps are all « devices » to be handled with skill. You must not apply them without any care to avoid seeing their beneficial effect turn into a negative one, very dangerous for the horse's limbs. Advice for an efficient application. |
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| STABLE BANDAGES |
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Their role :
Stable bandages protect tendons and joints (fetlocks) of the horse's limbs. They tighten the different tendinous and ligamentous tissues.
When can they be used?
• During travels (protection).
• On a horse experiencing tendon deficiencies (fragility and consequences of a strain).
• After an occasional effort (competition, long trekking, training on a wet ground). You can also use bandages as a prevention device. Sometimes (once per week, for instance) try to leave his limbs naked for 24 hours, in order to let the skin breathe.
Warning :
Stable bandages can also be considered as a veterinary treatment. Use them without any actual reason could weaken the horse.
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| BANDAGES “EATERS” |
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Some horses take a malicious pleasure in nibbling their bandages. Here is the recipe of a mixture which should dissuade him from tearing his protections to pieces:
Mix in a container 50 cl of lemon juice, 50 cl of wine vinegar, 10 cl of Emouchine (fly repellent). Then, with the aid of a toothbrush, apply the mixture in the areas easily reachable by the horse (Velcro, higher part of the bandage).
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| STABLE BANDAGES |
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Application :
The perfect length for a bandage is 3,50 m. The result after the application should give you the impression of having a limb three times larger and with a regular shape.
• Position yourself on the limb's side. Take a cotton roll pad and unroll it around the cannon, plain, with a slight tension. Your cotton roll must fully cover the whole length of cannon and fetlock joint (picture no. 1).
• One hand holds the cotton roll while the other one takes the stable bandage. Start from the cannon higher area and place the bandage plain. Make a « dead round » in order to let your bandage hold the cotton roll in place (picture no. 2).
• Then, let the bandage go down along the leg surrounding it, a little on the bias and with regular spaces. At each passage on the cannon bone, slightly pull the bandage and let each fold slightly superimpose the previous one in order to keep a good hold of it (picture no. 3).
• As you reach the fetlock, increase the bias to surround the lower area (under the ergot). Make sure to make two following passages to find yourself with two thicknesses (picture no. 4).
• Once that the fetlock is covered, go up again in the same way as when going down, then end carefully applying the fastening Velcro. It is important to have the same thickness everywhere. Once finished your round trip, if you find yourself with a remarkably long bandage, this means that the next time you will have to reduce spaces between each fold, and vice-versa in the opposite case.
To sum up, it is necessary to have a downward layer and then an upward layer. It's bad to have three layers on top and two at the bottom as the tension is not homogenous, causing discomfort to the horse. |
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