Do you use magnets on your horses....?

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Do you use magnets on your horses....?

If yes - Do you think it is is worth it for back and/or past leg injuries?

If no - why not?

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Yup, I do. I use magnets on both of mine.

I have the aerborn leg wraps for my mares back legs. She broke her splint bone in two places last winter and these wraps have worked wonders.
Arch has the aerborn ankle wraps, to help ease the pain in his fetlock joint.
 
I use a magnetic rug, definitely helps them feel looser, have also used a magnessage which looks like a wand, has a powerful revolving magnet inside, it definitely took swelling down on a leg. Have also used the magnessage for migraine for both synical OH and myself. Worked for both of us.
 
I have an Aerborn Back Pad which has been swiped by my Boss for her Cold Backed ex-racer, it makes a huge difference to him.
I use it when pulling my horse's mane, as I have found he is less likely to kill me with it on
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No idea about tendon injuries sorry.
 
Yes I do. He wears Bioflow wraps on his front legs at night, he's had a fractured splint bone and I swear the Bioflow wraps have helped shrink the lump. He also wears a magnetic band in the field for the same reason.
 
Yes use magnetic rug on my two for between 2-4 hours every day, keeps them relaxed. You should feel the heat of the rung when you take it off one one of them it is amazing. Also use leg wraps on them when travelling to a show and also after exercise. It really helped one of mine last week who was cast in the stable and really sore afterwards.
 
Yup, I use armadillo wraps on my TB's leg to reduce the swelling in his Check Ligament after he damaged it last year. He was yoyoing between recovering and being v swollen again before I started using it, now it is much more stable. They say to only put them on for an hour at a time on tendons for fear of overheating.

i also use them on his arthritis with great success!
 
Yes. For two reasons - mainly to stop her legs swelling when stabled overnight (she only comes in during really bad weather) and partly also for her old tendon injury. She tore her DDFT in her left fore foot in Feb 2007, probably for the second time although I can't be sure. She is 99.9% sound but will never be 100% and only hacks now in walk and trot... she came home after walking over slightly rutty ground last week and stood with her heel just ever so slightly off the floor (only paranoid Mummy notices these things, I was probably imagining it anyway!) and after two nights with her Bioflow boots on she was fine again.
I don't know if I believe that they do anything, scientifically, but IME they have been useful and were worth the £60 I paid
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I also have an Armadillo wrist band for me, which helps keep my knackered wrist from aching so much at work (I'm a groom)... so if it works on me I'm happy to use it on my horse too!
 
i use to use them for my horse for the first year after his tendon injury...but then stopped. don't really know why lol
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he is fine without it now...but i think it helped during the first year after him coming back into work after his tendon injury to have magnetic leg wraps on his front legs
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I have a magnetic rug and tbh is was a bit of a fad! I used it loads with my boy prone to tying up but it has not really been used much since. I bought mine cheaply from a friend but will not replace it when it finally dies. Friend used magnetic boots on her horse with a check ligament injury and they did seem to help reduce the swealing.
 
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