Again, on all this.....and discussion of
breathability of pads......breathable foam and fabrics.....I guess what keeps
stumping me is how the heck does the pad "breathe" when the saddle and rider are
sitting on top of it?
One thing that seems LOGICAL about all this.
If you use a Dixie Midnight pad.....the sweat does tend to run down the
side
of the horse and the pad above stays dry. If
you don't use one.....your pad gets soggy with sweat. This does not seem
like a good thing.....I even remember rides where the sweat went all the way
through a skito pad, made the top wet and the bottom fleece of the saddle
wet.....
Either I missed something - but there was no mention in any of
the research of "breathability" nor of heat transfer from the back of a horse
in the research listed on the referred to website.. Breathability and heat
transfer are different issues. Breathability is normally associated in
allowing water vapor to escape and heat transfer is normally associated with
the transfer of hear from one object to another or the surrounding
environment.
Both of these can be of importance to the endurance
horse, but particularly heat transfer from the large area of the back to the
environment is very important.
If you have reports results from
instrumented test performed by independent researches, I'm all ears.
Truman
Ridecamp Guest wrote:
Please Reply to: Richard Sacks rsacks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx or ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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To Jonnie Jewell, the Lop's and others.
I am the President of Equipedic and the designer of the pad. The studies on oxygenated blood flow were performed By Dr. Lawrence Lavery (when he was at Chicago Loyola Medical) on subjects who had vascular impairment and by Texas A&M on general popluation subjects. The results indicated a 8-12.5% increase in oxygenated blood flow for those who had vascular impairment vs. control and 10.5 to 29.97% for general population vs. control on. This study was done on behalf of the manufacturer, Hologenixs, LLC (www.holofiber.com). The temperature differentials were tested by the US military and the the manufacturers. The base fiber(phase change material)for temperature modulation is used in bullete proof vests, helmets, clothing and gloves in military and law enforcement applications. The testing was performed in a heat chamber at 95 degrees and 95% humidity using thermocouplers. The results showed as much as
13 degree differental for helmets and as much as 7 degrees for vests when compared to control. The test were performed under activity for periods of 1 hour.
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