Bandaging

How do you choose to bandage?

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Degan

Degan

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When using bandages for excercise where do you start?
and if starting at the top do you leave a tab to fold over?

Thankyou in advance :)
 
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Midway, closer to the bottom if anything, one loop round, one going just under the fetlock, one to secure that one and then to the top finishing there. and no tab :)
 
I put start halfway down, but I hadn't read your post then and was talking about stable bandages. I start those halfway down because I won't get to the bottom and back up above the fetlock again if I start from the top.

For exercise bandages I'd start at the top but I wouldn't use a tab anymore, think that's outdated now :) Sure it doesn't matter either way though. So long as the pressure is consistent throughout the bandage, it is the right tension and there are no creases or anything I don't think it matters too much.
 
Hard to explain but I do the whole bandage on the diagonal instead of horizontal so the 'tab' isn't the right angled BHS one. And if I'm using the gucci half fleece half elastic bandages I don't leave a tab.
 
I do mine the American way with pole wraps, I run the bandage vertically from just below the fetlock, vertically up the tendon (to create a 'pad' to reduce pressure) then create a diagonal fold at the top and start bandaging down. At the fetlock i then turn up the left over tab and bandage over it back up the leg to the top.
 
KatPT said:
I do mine the American way with pole wraps, I run the bandage vertically from just below the fetlock, vertically up the tendon (to create a 'pad' to reduce pressure) then create a diagonal fold at the top and start bandaging down. At the fetlock i then turn up the left over tab and bandage over it back up the leg to the top.
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I'm intruiged :)

"Measure" bandage straight up the tendon (presumably you're just bandaging it flush to the leg as you go down) - how do you do the fold over at the top without getting a funny angled fold, if you see what i mean? And I am also making an uneducated guess on this 'technique' that you're bandaging back to front? So you fold over as you're at the back of the leg to come down diagonally and "tighten" the bandage at the front of the leg??

I am pants at bandaging and cannot find a way that suits me - think I worry so much about it being too tight or wrinkled that I can't concentrate! Plus, my horse is not one for standing for too long!
 
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