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Title:Equine Notes Conference
Notice:Topics List=4, Horses 4Sale/Wanted=150, Equip 4Sale/Wanted=151
Moderator:MTADMS::COBURNIO
Created:Tue Feb 11 1986
Last Modified:Thu Jun 05 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:2080
Total number of notes:22383

522.0. "using neck sweats/sweating in general" by BAUCIS::MATTHEWS (get outta my way i'm goin skiing) Tue Mar 15 1988 10:13

    
    does anyone know of a good effective way to sweat out parts
    of the body, such as the neck on a horse, or the shoulder.
    i know i havev heard so such about whether it works or it
    doesnt work, long term.
    any comments.
    
    also do you use a sweat solution also??
    
    i use to use dmso and liquid glyercine (sp?),
    now i have switched to listerine and alchol
    and have also heard egg is good also.
    
    		any information would be helpful.
    
    				wendy.
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522.1MEIS::SCRAGGSTue Mar 15 1988 11:5210
    
    Wendy, I use a jowl sweat for my QH. When I bought him he 
    had a very thick jowl. I used it over the summer only while
    riding and it reduced the area quite a bit. He now has much
    more definition, looks much nicer.  I also used a full neck
    sweat on my old QH. He had a very straight neck, with a cow
    muscle under. It worked great on him.
    
    Marianne
522.2CSC32::M_HOEPNERTue Mar 15 1988 13:368
    I have a friend who uses a real effective method.
    
    There is a type of neck sweat which I think you get through Victor
    Supreme.  It totally covers the neck.  And you hook it up to a hair
    dryer (blow dryer type).  Before you put it on, you rub "GREAT NECK"
    all over the neck.  This does a wonderful job.  You can get a neck
    down in 2 or 3 days instead of weeks.
522.3sweat what?NOETIC::KOLBEinto the ragged meadow of my soulWed Mar 23 1988 18:364
	What exactly is being sweated away? This sounds like those body wraps
	they have that get you a size smaller until you drink a glass of water.
	Is this permanent? liesl
522.4CSC32::M_HOEPNERThu Mar 24 1988 08:2318
    re: .3   "Is it permanent?"
    
    Physiologically I don't know how it could be permanent.  But it
    is "effective" for during show season if you keep sweating on a
    regular basis.  Some show barns sweat their horses weekly (with
    the blow dryer type) even during the off season.  Then you don't
    notice the fatter neck until you take your horse home.
    
    I'm not totally convinced about the effectiveness.  Excellent
    conditioning where the neck muscles are used correctly is a more
    appealing method to me.  
    
    A friend had an Arabian stallion who was top ten stallion 4 times.
    They sweated his neck ALL the time.  (He really didn't have all that
    bad a neck.)  When they quit showing him halter and started riding him,
    they found his neck changed shape a little and was more muscular, so
    they quit sweating him.