I have one that is now on the 4th month being off with a bow in the front leg. I iced his leg every day for nearly 2 months, helped alot with the swelling, I just got one of those cold gel packs that you can put in the fridge and would put that on the bow and wrap it with a polo wrap and leave it for about 25 minutes, complete stall rest with it wrapped but be careful that you wrap it right or you can cause more harm, I used powder bute and gave him a gram a day for about 30 days. The third month I stated rubbing it down with DMSO everyday but I did not wrap it, after 2 weeks into the 3rd month I started turning him out everyday all day since he was not limping anymore and putting him up at night. Now were on the 4th month I am finally starting to see the tendon going down, its not normal but so much better, still rubbing it with DMSO every day. Probablly another 2 or 3 months I may get to start riding him a little bit at a time. Its along healing process.