I think the key things are changing the environment so there is less pressure and friction on the heels. Adding soft rugs around and making sure the main living area has memory foam under fleece or vetbed seems to work pretty well.

My Hugh’s just healing from his first sore hock at 9 and a half. He’s only on carpet and fleece and foam bath mats are very good. So this must have been the wood litter in his tray. Now only have this around the edges of his tray and in the middle a puppy pad then all covered in hay, when before the hay was only at the back. Week and a half of changing this and some hibiscrub and sudocrem and almost back to normal

If changes to his flooring don’t help then you could try making a boot for him. There are instructions online showing how to wrap the foot. Otherwise, I know a few people have purchased handmade bunny boots on Etsy that seem to have helped.

When my bun got sore hocks I wrapped his feet with self-adhesive vet wrap lined with his own fur. It’s important that the lining is rabbit fur. Cotton pads or lamb’s wool etc isnt soft enough.

Dont let the fur lining protrude out from the wrap, or the bun might feel inclined to pull the fur out (my rabbit did that before I realised).

I recommend all bun owners save some fur when their bun is molting, it might very well come in handy sooner or later. If not, it’s great for needle felting 🙂

My bun’s sore hocks healed up nicely with the fur lined vet wraps, but I dont know how it would’ve been without the fur inside. Dana Krempels, a highly trusted source on rabbit health, says using rabbit fur in sore hock wraps is very important, so I just did that. I had quite a bit of bun fur saved from brushing my buns during molting, for needle felting purposes.

I “felted” the fur into little mats with my fingers, like little inner soles. That was the easiest way for me to make sure no fur extended above or below the wrap.