crc-rehab-blog: Black vulture patient #20556 was released last week! Why is this so exci
crc-rehab-blog: Black vulture patient #20556 was released last week! Why is this so exciting, you ask? It’s a black vulture. They are a common species that we see often and commonly release. Well, not with this kind of injury. We gathered from very valuable information from this individual. She was admitted in May and diagnosed with a proximal right humerus fracture (basically there was a break very close to the shoulder). The fracture was too close to the joint to be surgically repaired. In cases like this with barred and Eastern screech owls, we continue without surgery - just immobilization and physical therapy. They tend to do well. Hawks, on the other hand, do not. From experience, they do not return to flight (or at least not well enough for release), so they are euthanized on arrival. This was the first vulture with this injury that we attempted to rehab with just just immobilization and physical therapy (and over three months of conditioning). After 146 days, she is flying free. And thanks to her, others with this type of injury will have the opportunity to do the same. -- source link