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OMG, don't put saran wrap over poultice!  That would be *sweating* the  
leg.  One puts a wrap of brown paper bag over poultice, the idea is to  
get the leg dry and tight, then standing bandages.  Do get some  
instruction on the proper way to apply standing bandages--track  
bandages over no-bow foam, or quilts, it's not hard there's just a few  
things to watch out for in terms of tightness, overlap of wrap, which  
direction, when you pull and when you don't.

Posted to RC in the hope that other people get it.  You don't need  
fancy wraps.  Ice is the best anti-inflammatory, anyhow, and I'm  
certainly glad it's "legal".

Lynne
who usually doesn't wrap

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On Jul 11, 2008, at 1:17 PM, Sharon Levasseur wrote:

> Thanks everyone, you're underscoring what I've started to suspect.   
> Based on what I've done so far, I think my gelding does much better  
> with COLD than with wrapping.
>
> I have never been taught to "wrap", per se, so I don't dare go  
> there.  For the last year or more, after our 50-milers I've done  
> cold-water-soaked Boomers' Bandages over clay poultice with no saran  
> wrap between... and it has worked fairly well.  I started doing it  
> after a suggestion from a Ridecamper.
>
> But, I was getting tired of how dirty the wraps got, and that they  
> didn't stay on too well.  So this last time I wrapped with poultice  
> and saran wrap under the same Boomers' Bandages, but without the  
> cold-water soak, and when the wraps came off all his legs were warm  
> and filled!
>
> Soooo, I'm thinking it was the coolness more than the poultice that  
> was doing the trick.  I'm thinking about getting some Extend-a-Cool  
> or ColdFlex wraps but right now I can't afford either so I'll just  
> bring some extra extra buckets and buy more ice.  :-)
>
> Thanks y'all!
> -Sharon L. in Maine
>
>
>
> Quoting Marirose Six <6mules@xxxxxxxxx>:
>
> > I agree with you, Sheila, wrapping properly makes a BIG difference.  
> > I will
> > wrap with a cly poultice after a 100 or maybe a FAST 50. BUT, I  
> > know how to
> > wrap a leg evenly ( no  pressure points) with good, even, tension,  
> > but not
> > too tight. I'm a believer in, if you're unsure if you can wrap  
> > properly,
> > then don't wrap.
> >
> > On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 9:37 AM, <Sheila_Larsen@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > I wrap my horses legs after an endurance or very very hard  
> > > training ride
> > > with a clay poultice.  However, I do know how wrap legs very well,  
> > > it
> > > drives me crazy to see bad leg wrapping.  I figure my horses work  
> > > hard for
> > > me and I want to prevent filling.  Some people say "I want to see  
> > > if they
> > > have filling."  I however want to prevent filling.  I have not had  
> > > heat
> > > buildup using a clay poultice although once I used a green jelly  
> > > and the
> > > legs were warm when I unwrapped, no filling though.  At that point  
> > > I just
> > > decided to use the clay.  Probably a personal choice.
> > > Thanks,
> > > Sheila
> > > 916.414.6685

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