Does anyone else worry? Advice needed

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my boy is out of action at the moment, as he came in lame from what is suspected as a kick, physio advised t/o but rest. He is currently out in the sick paddock but i don't know how much longer the YO will let him remain there.
I don't want him to go out with the main herd as i am concerned he won't rest. The field has been split in half and i think all the rug ripping/kicking is due to them being on top of one another - we didn't have this in the summer.
I am really worried about him going back with the herd and as much as i don't want to, considering i may need to move him somewhere with more grazing, where he can go out on his own or in a small group.
I guess i am worried more as 1 other livery had a moan at me after mine went lame as her horse also had a few problems. I can't control what he does in the field but her saying things about mine has left me feeling a bit awkward and sensitive. My boy isn't a kicker but i know he likes to play as i've seen him chewing others faces and running around but then there are others in the field alot worse!
What should i do?
Feeling a bit pathetic. Hugs and advice needed!
 
Hope your horse is fine soon. We have a lot of geldings that all go out together in quite a small field for the winter and they do hurtle about the place, and love playing which I think is an important part of their socialising together and we have ripped rugs (and one day I was handed quite a large section of my horse's tail by another livery who had found it beautifully curled up inside one of her horse's feet, we both laughed!) etc but thankfully in all the time I've been there only one major injury from a kick and none of us ever knew which horse had caused that. But it does happen as horses are horses, and you'd have to be there every minute of the day to know which horse did what to another.

I had someone come up to me last week and say that my horse kicked theirs, I said what happened..and she said oh he didn't actually make contact, but she said my horse went to kick hers because he got too close (she had been feeding her horse treats over the fence and mine had come up the minute he spotted her doing that!)...I just smiled and said well my horse didn't actually "kick" yours then did he. He was just being a horse! Sometimes you have to slightly interpret what people say as I find it can get quite embellished.

While I'm all for taking precautions to keep our beloved animals safe we sadly can't wrap them up in cotton wool.
 
Ditto them ^^^^^

And have a hug and a hot choccy
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