Re: Nine Pocket Ice Boots

["Karen Sullivan" <greymare@jps.net>]

Frank and all others..............Isn't the benefit of cooling gained by
iceing the legs offset by the chilling of the tendons?  Wouldn't this make
the tendons more likely to tear or pull because their eleasticity is
compromised by the cold?
----- Original Message -----
From: <DVeritas@aol.com>

> I have been really happy with 9 pocket Thoroughbred ice boots.  When
placed
> on the front legs of most Arabians, one can fill each pocket (up to the
knee)
> with ice.
>     I then, using a three or four gallon sprayer (one not previously used
on
> weeds, preferably) filled with ice water, spray down inside and completely
> around the leg/ice boots.
>     The spraying, if down every five minutes or so, will result in a
cooled
> leg (soft tissue down to the joints) in about forty-five minutes.
>     Replace ice cubes as needed.
>     If the ice boots are used without the sprayer, I (like Bob Morris
> stated), just as soon not put them on the horse, as the heat builds up
very
> rapidly beneath the neoprene.
>     This protocol has worked very well, particularly at multi-days.
>     One must be meticulous and religiously spray the water down into the
> boots.  ("Religiously", as in, God, I'd like to sit down and take a break,
> but not until I've taken care of these legs...)
>
>       Frank.
>
>
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