bandaging

[Seahorse]

when you bandage a horse you should always do the bandage so it is facing the back of the horse, so you don't put the tension on the tendon but on the front of the leg.
So why is it that everyone manages to bandage a left leg properly but when the bandage a right leg they do it completely the wrong way?

This is one of my pet hates, and I had to interfere this morning while someone was putting stable bandages on their horse!!

 

[Shilasdair]

I have no idea what you are describing?
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[Persephone]

If you are right handed then the left leg is naturally easier to do.

IMO the person was being lazy, didn't think or didn't know!

ETS I am assuming you are calling the nearside leg the left leg?

 

[Silverspring]

I love that you actually interfered with someone else bandaging their own horse. I often think someone is doing something wrong but never say anything (unless the horse's welfare is at risk)

As for bandaging, you do find some people bandage back to front if they haven't been taught correctly but with bandages these days being as soft and stretchy they won't do much harm.

 

[Seahorse]

tbh her bandages were so loose they probably won't actually do anything!!

You wouldn't put brushing boots on with the velcro facing forwards so why bandage with it facing forwards? Its just wrong.....

 

[Sags_Deer]

Yes it is wrong - but there are a lot of people who have no idea about how to bandage too.

 

[Seahorse]

what annoyed me is that I showed her how to do it properly, then the next time she bandaged she did it the wrong way again!!

 

[ecrozier]

See I always do it so the velcro at the end faces backwards, like you describe, but OH who is newer to horses asked me the other day why it matters so much, and I said it was to do with putting the tension on the front rather than back of the leg....but he said surely the pressure should be even all round if you do it properly - which seems a good point actually! He thinks I am so fussy, when I will take a stable bandage off and do it again if it doesn't look quite as I want it to!