Red light therapy absolutely does help. Our middle aged dog had a large mass removed from a tough spot recently and I was cold lasering 2x a day. The vet was shocked at the quality of healing and how fast it healed.
I can lend you mine if you need one, it’s a Brandenburg Equine.
I disagree with the poster who said to only do one thing at a time. Right now, I’d throw the kitchen sink at it. Who cares if you know what worked, as long as something does.
@crackerjack I also have the red light pads from “According to Gospel” I could lend you as well, those might be easier as you strap them on instead of needing to hold it.
Aww thanks for the offer. I’m in Canada so it would be a bit complicated! But I very much appreciate the offer. I will google the brand you have.
I understand what the poster meant about not doing all the things. In these early days I will be doing all the things because I need to feel like I’m doing something useful!
I get not doing everything at once for chronic stuff, but acute? It’s kitchen sink time. 
As far as supplements, I used something along these lines: https://shop.ker.com/products/triacton?variant=39086053257 when I was dealing with a long-running splint saga (took two rounds of freezing and stall rest to get it to fully settle). Obviously not exactly the same issue, but something else to look into especially if he won’t eat the other recommended supplement.
Not just the sink but the whole kitchen!!
The other side of that coin is that boots add an extra weight to the leg and can be cumbersome to some horses, so maybe they would have a negative impact on the leg’s healing?
I like the advice to double check with the vet first.
I like to assume that my horse just felt I needed to spend more money on them.
I’ll also throw another vote for Osteon if you can get them to eat it. I used it for one with a bad bone bruise, and it cut the projected healing time just about in half.
Just received a message from the barn manager that he went down overnight and is very swollen and sore - non-weight bearing. I have accepted that things aren’t going to end up as I’d hoped. Vet was called and she said to tie him up with more banamine.
Oh no. More jingles!!!
More jingles from here.
Jingles jingles jingles.
Ugh, so sorry for that news.
Oh no! Hugs and jingles
I’m not sure this would be appropriate at this point in the healing process for your horse, but I went to the vet with a friend whose mare had a hairline fracture in her hock. The vet administered shockwave therapy and the horse was given 4 months pasture rest. She healed sound.
Do you have a hospital nearby? I’d push your vet to get some answers from them before the holiday. Moving the very lame horse is not ideal, but if he needs surgery or a sling, he needs to have that leg immobilized, loaded up with a high dose of Bute, and to go to the clinic asap. This is the phase to worry about support limb laminitis and other complications, not to mention that possible sequestrum.
In the meantime, put ice on the swelling. Be careful about him being tied without a sling if he’s desperate to lay down. See if you can get some Cloud boots. Consider switching from Banamine to Bute or even asking your vet about temporarily combining NSAIDs (that saved a friend’s horse during a severe, non-weight bearing lameness…with monitoring of kidneys, etc.).
We also did IV DMSO for my horse in the first days. Main reason was for possible nerve trauma due to the location and way he injured himself. But also to help the support foot.
Jingles for you!
Seconding if a hospital may be an option for 24 hour monitoring. If he can’t move can you get a camera set up so that you can check at intervals? Is the barn set up so if he’s down and can’t get up you have enough people available to help?
oh man, crossing fingers and toes for you!
OP is in Canada. Our holiday was on Tuesday.
Jingles OP!
Jingles from me, too! I’m so very sorry.
Could you add in Tylenol? For an 1100 pound horse, we use 26 tablets.
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