Description
Achieve ultimate relaxation with comforting heat and massage.
Combining reliable, tested and intelligent heat with proven massage*, the NEW Heatsense is a great addition to your horses’ daily routine to maintain good back health.
- The choice is yours – pick from heat and three intensities of massage.
- Choose heat alone or massage alone or have them both on together! Whatever suits your horse.
- Reliable, tested therapeutic heat output with sensors to turn off/on depending on your horse’s temperature.
- Heat targeted to the most common areas of weakness.
- 6 Massage motors evenly distributed across the pad.
- Fits into your daily routine with a 30-minute programme.
- Shaped to follow the contours of the horses back with 90cm coverage from withers to quarters and 35cm wide.
- Battery operated to take it with you wherever you go.
- Covered by a 2-year guarantee.
- Contains 1 x Massage Pad Heatsense, 1 x Storage Bag, 1 x Equilibrium Heatsense Battery, 1 x Equilibrium Heatsense Charger.
Heatsense is available in one size designed to fit horses 14.1hh and upwards.
*Based on the popular Equilibrium Massage Pad clinically proven to improve back flexibility and promote relaxation tested at Myerscough College, 2007.
What inspired the Massage Pad Heatsense for horses?
With the Massage range already helping horses worldwide, it seemed only natural to add the next best thing – heat! Heat that is reliable, tested and targeted to reach safe recommended therapeutic temperatures (42 degrees Celsius).
How can Massage and Heat benefit horses?
Our horses work hard for us with a lot of pressure being put onto their muscles through exercise. Massage and heat are two simple ways in which we can help support healthy muscle function in our horse.
Massage
Performance depends on freedom of movement, full flexibility, and an absence of musculoskeletal pain, all of which can be improved using massage (Gellman, 1998).
Benefits of Massage include:
• Helps maintain healthy blood and lymph circulation.
• Preparing muscles for exercise.
• Soothes tired muscles.
• Supports recovery after exercise.
• Promotes relaxation.
Heat
Heat is a non-invasive, gentle, and generally a well-accepted form of therapy with many associated benefits. However, it is important that heat is delivered at the correct temperature, and for an appropriate amount of time to achieve the desired effects.
If temperatures are not high enough, there is unlikely to be any significant effect to the tissue. If temperatures are too high, or are left in position too long, then tissue damage may occur.
The Heatsense Pad has therefore been thoroughly tested to ensure the heat is delivered in accordance with supporting research. A range of sources determined the following necessities for the Massage Pad Heatsense.
– Heat is delivered between 40-45 degrees Celsius.
– The target temperature is maintained for 15 minutes.
– The heat should never exceed 45 degrees Celsius for an extended period of time.
HEAT SENSOR
Due to the risks associated with heat, and the narrow target window for therapeutic heat, we developed an intelligent monitoring system that is constantly checking the temperature being delivered to the horse. This adjusts accordingly to ensure a repeatable session is experienced each time the pad is used.
This is especially important in a product that is strapped to the horse, that they cannot easily move away from.
As the temperature reaches the target of 42 degrees Celsius power to the heat pads will cut out. As the temperature drops again, power to the heat pads will resume. This process continues to ensure the horse receives 15 minutes at the target temperature.
This monitoring system will also help prevent the pad heating tissue that is already hot, whether that is due to ambient temperatures, or if the horse has just been exercised. The left and right side of the pad also work independently of each other, meaning one side could be receiving heat, even if the other is too warm.
Who is the Massage Pad Heatsense for?
All horses and ponies could benefit from the Massage Pad Heatsense, including:
• Horses on box rest to maintain good blood flow.
• After exercise to help support recovery.
• Before exercise as part of warm up.
• At a show to relax after travelling.
• On your horse’s day off as part of a maintenance programme.
• Anytime as a reward.
Heatsense is available in two sizes and designed to fit all horses.
What is it made of?
The Massage Pad Heatsense is made up of polyurethane, or PU, with foam padding. The PU outer makes the product extremely hardwearing, but also hygienic – which is ideal if it is shared between many horses and ponies. It is resistant to water and grease, but also to fungus. This material paired with the padding also makes it comfortable for the horse.
Six massage motors are positioned in the target areas for horses and ponies. There are two either side of the wither, two mid-way down the pad and another two behind the saddle area. The careful design of the massage pad then facilitates the spread of the massage along the back muscles.
The heating element is housed within the back third of the Massage Pad and heats a gel pad, which in turn will heat the horse over the area that’s commonly more troublesome . This ensures that the heat is evenly dispersed and consistent. It also acts as a safety barrier. This part of the Massage Pad also has a sensor to ensure the horse doesn’t overheat, for example when using the pad in warmer weather or after exercise when the horse is naturally warm.
How do I care for the Massage Pad Heatsense?
The Massage Pad Heatsense just needs a gentle wipe down with a damp, clean cloth if the material gets scurfy. For Battery and Charger care, please see their safety instructions included in the packaging.
Caution! Do not use on the following:
• Open wounds, new injuries, or new swelling (for the first 48 hours).
• Where there is suspected infection or malignant tumours.
• Burn injuries or deep vein thrombosis.
• Over the abdomen if pregnant, or at all during the first trimester
• Circulatory problems, causing hypo or hypersensitivity to heat.
• Active bleeding, bruising or haematoma.
• Bony areas such as the wither, point of shoulder or hip.
• Do not apply more than 1 heat session at a time on the same horse.
Battery Life:
The high performance Heatsense Battery can deliver up to ten sessions of effective Heat & Massage therapy. This is equivalent to five hours of use. In extreme cold conditions this may reduce to eight sessions.
To preserve the life of the battery we strongly recommend unplugging the battery from the cable after every use.
After ten heat and massage sessions we recommend charging the battery, this ensures that the Heatsense can deliver the heat therapy at the required temperatures. After ten uses the heat may still be delivered but it is unlikely to be at the optimum temperature.
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Taken From |
Heatsense Small (14hh and under or 5’6″ and below) |
Heatsense Standard (14.1hh and above or 5’9″ rug size and upwards) |
| A. Length across the top (cm) | 70 | 90 |
| B. Width from the top to the bottom (cm) | 30 | 35 |
Yasmin Ullah (verified owner) –
Now this is one hell of an awesome investment. I already have the massage pad and a great heat pad but it was a faff to pop both on her with ease. My mare was recently diagnosed with sacroiliac disease (early onset) and my vets advice was to provide heat and massage therapy to increase circulation and comfort to the lower back area on a daily basis. Lovely Vicky got a pad to me as quickly as she could and the improvement in my mare before and after riding is superb. She is lovely to ride again and I know that alongside her regular physio, osteo and vet checks she will likely remain stable for the foreseeable future with the comfort and support that this pad provides. Definitely one of the best investments I have made.
vickynorth –
Amazing product ! My horse loves his. He feels so supple and relaxed when he’s had the heatsense on