How To Protect Yourself From Horse Riding Injuries
Protecting yourself with the clothes you are wearing can make the difference between a small and a serious injury. To protect yourself, you need to have a complete riding outfit, from head to toe. The outfit is quite expensive, but it is very much worth the expense. Several people on our world owe their lives to secure riding helmets, boots and riding pants.
Wear a riding helmet:
Wear a certified horse-riding helmet, with a good amount of padding. This will save you from having severe concussions. Make sure that you are wearring it correctly and that it fits your head exactly. We all have different head-sizes, so try it out before you buy it. It should move slightly, but not too much. When you tie your helmet underneath your jaw, make sure that you tie it not too losely and not too tightly. Also, it is best to have a spare one in your locker. We often times sweat while riding and the sweat seeps into the padding. Use your two helmets interchangeably from week to week, to preserve them longer.
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Wear safe riding clothes:
Wear trousers specifically designed for horse back riding. Because of their badding on the inner side of the knee and their general texture, they will help you stay in the saddle longer. Other kind of pants increase the risk for you to slip out of the saddle too easily. Slipping out of the saddle can be very dangerous. You are at a huge risk for landing underneath the horse and getting tampled. You can avoid this risk by up to 95% by wearing riding pants!
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Wear certified horse-riding boots:
Boots made specifically for horseback riding increase your safety, because they do not get easily stuck in the stirrups. Other kind of shoes are not suited, because or example sneakers may trap your ankle in the stirrups. Other shoes trap the back part of the foot in the stirrups. This can result in a very painful and even life-threatening experience, because once the foot is stuck and the rider falls, he gets dragged along the ground along wth the moving horse. The horse panics and makes is all the more dangerous for serious injuries to happen, especially to the head, ribs and ankles. Prefer non-zipped over zipped boots.
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