Patti asked -What are YOUR routines? How do you decide
which post-ride leg treatment/care you'll use?
Back at the trailer - vetrolin wash,
weather permitting, because he seems to like it. Ice boots about 30
min. I use the easy ice boots. They stay frozen in my cooler
since I don't have a fridge. Have the Professional choice ice cells but in
hot weather they melt in the cooler. After the ice, I sponge the
lower legs again to wash off excess vetrolin and put on the professional
choice sport medicine boots, all 4 and leave them till the next morning.
In the AM, I'll take them off, sponge, walk & put them back on for the ride
home. Once home & out to pasture where he's constantly moving he's
fine. Without this routine, he'll get swelling in all 4 more often
than not.
Be careful about
any liniment under any kind of wraps, I've seen some severe
blistering.
