Legs filling in stable on box rest, bandages or stable wraps?

jm2k

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My lad will be on box rest for a 1-2 months box rest and as he usually lives out so his legs will fill (did on 2 day riding club camp).

Looking at PE Stable wraps (not magnetic) / rhinegold stable (medicine) wraps OR using quilted wraps/pads with bandages on top?

Which offers the best support and hopefully reduce the swelling, rather than just the convenience of wraps.

Have considered alternating between the two for day / night use?
 

ellie_e

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I think its personal preference, I use wraps if im in a hurry as they are quick and easy, however generally I use decent pads and bandages.
 

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When mine was on box rest I found bandages most effective, but left a set of premier equine stable wraps at the yard if anyone else had to put them in for me.
 

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Bandages and gamgee overnight, but as above poster says, only if you are proficient at bandaging and will not do them too tight. I cannot stress enough to take them off very regularly- i.e put them on last thing and take them off first thing.

Someone I know left bandages on for too long and the results were horrifying.
 
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