REHABILITATION MEDICINE FOR AVIAN ORTHOPEDIC INJURIES

Abstract

This paper examines the bird orthopaedic injury rehabilitation medicine approaches and makes a comparison of the findings of the nine different sets of data that exceeded twenty cases each.  We focused our information in five species which are important and these are; parrots, hawks, falcons, eagles, and owls. These were their age, weight, kind of injury, the duration of treatment, recovery score and the follow-up outcome.  It was statistically significant that younger birds had higher recovery scores and that larger species, specifically eagles required more time to rehabilitate.  The most prevalent type of injury was fractures and they took longer to heal whereas sprains had faster healing spans.  Referring to multimodal approach to treatment, in particular, involving physiotherapy and nutritional supplementation, the outcomes of their successful recovery were improved. Splinting and physiotherapy produced the best full-recovery rates.  How length of treatment, recovery score, age and type of injury was related was represented by 12 complex visualisations including bar, scatter, line, pie and hybrid plots. These reinforced the statistic findings.  These findings demonstrate the necessity to use species-specific rehabilitation plans, initiate the treatment early, and offer careful follow-up care to achieve optimal functional recovery.  These outcomes provide veterinarians, wildlife rehabbers and conservation organizations with ideas on how to better handle the health and survivability of birds in orthopaedic orthopaedic injury.