Top Tip 1: Delayed Icing After Exercise
Forgotten your Cryochaps? Our ice boots can be applied up to 3 hours after exercise and still have an impact!
Forgotten your Cryochaps? Our ice boots can be applied up to 3 hours after exercise and still have an impact!
Do your horses’ pasterns fill after standing in for long periods? Ice and compression reduce inflammation so try icing with the new Absolute Wraps to see if they can reduce that filling. You can feel how cold those pasterns and hooves are after removing the Absolute Wraps! Get yours now
The whole purpose of using ice boots or wraps is to drop the temperature of the legs quickly and efficiently. To do this contact between the wrap and the leg is really important. Cryochaps are filled with gel and designed to mould perfectly to the legs. This maximises cold transfer. When applying your Cryochaps you…
The hock is one of the most complicated joints in horses, made up of 10 bones and 4 joints supported by several ligaments.This image shows how the Absolute Wrap covers all the bones in the hock. This is important when icing for inflammation in the joint itself, for the full benefits of cooling and compression.…
Understanding hocks… Your bogs v your bone spavins. “Spavin” comes from a root word meaning swelling. In simple terms, a bog spavin is a soft puffiness or swelling at the front of the hock, while a bone spavin is a solid bony enlargement on either side of the hock, often caused by arthritis. Lameness and…