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The Owl Chiropractor?! (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 months ago by anon6789 to c/superbowl

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From World Bird Sanctuary

Chiropractic care for birds? We're trying something new for some of our patients with torticollis, a condition where the head is twisted partially or fully upside down! Torticollis can be the result of a number of injuries including head trauma, lead toxicity, and infections. Physical therapy has long been a part of our treatment for torticollis, but isn't always effective. We'd like to thank Heather Seaver for her donation of her chiropractic services to give some of these patients another care option to help them recover. So far, chiropractic seems to be very relaxing to the patients receiving it.

Shown is Barred Owl 24-519 during a chiropractic session. The chiropractic seems to help relax him and there was notable improvement to his muscle tension after his session. 519 is suffering from lead poisoning, some older ocular trauma, and torticollis. When he was found, he kept making it up into a tree but was then not able to fly straight and kept falling back to the ground. This could be from the torticollis, or from the lead poisoning which is causing him to clench his feet and legs abnormally some of the time.

I was a bit surprised to see this. I know there tends to be some debate on if chiropractics is a good thing or not. I'd be very nervous with those hollow bones!

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I enjoy that your entire comm is about owls. Why did you name it Superbowl?

Edit. Lol I get it, superb owl. A lot of people are going to hate this in the fall. I think that's great

[–] anon6789 4 points 4 months ago

The name was brought over from Reddit's r/Superbowl. From what I could find over there:

So the basic history was that the NFL doesn't like people using 'Superbowl' (as in Super Bowl) without permission, I guess they don't like free advertising.

From my earliest recall, Stephen Colbert made a joke of this and discovered the pun of Superbowl (Superb Owl). Whether this sub Reddit was here earlier is beyond me. But there has always been Superbowls before the Superbowl.

They have over 440,000 users, so it was likely copied over here to catch the attention of people migrating over. It's a pretty big community on Reddit and here, so there's no shortage of people who love owls.

The biggest downside though, is some people that hate sports will block this group before they see we're about the birds.