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At a minimum, Ice-Vibe boots should not be used within the first six weeks after a fracture. A fracture needs to mend during the first six weeks and movement and massage may irritate it causing swelling.

*Always consult your veterinarian before using Ice-Vibe® in rehabilitation to ensure it is integrated and aligns with their healing plan for your horse.

Only when the splint has settled otherwise it may react the same way as a fracture and become inflamed.

Setting three is to be used just with cold packs on bigger boned horses. Setting two is the main setting before and after exercise.

Yes, you can put them on before exercise with just the vibration to create a massaging effect to stimulate blood flow. When blood flow is increased tendons and ligaments become more elastic which can help to prevent damage during exercise.

Yes, you can put the cold packs in warm water (not the microwave) and apply them with the massage before exercise or on older horses that might have arthritis to assist to reduce stiffness.

*Do not let the packs get too hot as you could burn your horse.

With icing alone it is possible to over cool the horse’s leg. It is important not to completely remove inflammation as the body uses it as a marker to start the repair process. However, some reduction in inflammation is important to assist circulation.

Ice-Vibe cold packs will cool the horse’s leg to reduce inflammation, and the massage effect then draws blood flow to the leg to improve the healing process.

When an area is healing scar tissue is formed, the movement created by the vibration and massage helps to break down adhesions and scar tissue whilst increasing blood flow to assist healing.

*Always consult your veterinarian before using Ice-Vibe® in rehabilitation to ensure it is integrated and aligns with their healing plan for your horse.

When cooled, tendons do not return to previous temperatures as quickly as muscles, as they do not have the same blood supply or metabolism. Therefore, making the legs very cold for long periods of time with ice may actually cause an inflammatory response.

Ice-Vibe boots are designed to cool the tissue, via the cold packs, and reduce inflammation without restricting blood flow. The combined massage effect allows oxygen to be maintained to tired and damaged tissue, resulting in a better recovery.

Ice-Vibe boots can play a key role in keeping your horse’s legs issue free. By design, tendons are much slower to heal than muscles. Tendon problems are often the result of a build-up of damage over time. By using the Ice-Vibe boots regularly you can help stimulate blood flow keeping your horse’s legs healthy between workouts and competition to reduce the potential for future injury.

Ice-vibe boots are a portable massage boots with hot/cold inserts to create warm or cold circulation treatments that can be used before or after exercise or during rehabilitation.