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Burrowing Owl 'Marathon' had laser treatment for a leg injury when one of the volunteers snapped this cute picture.
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Martin Rundkvist

@owlsintowels
Please tell us more about the laser treatment. Is this like a surgical knife that automatically cauterises the incision?

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Owls in Towels Mar 9

@mrundkvist

Laser treatment is when vets/rehabbers target soft tissues with certain wavelengths of light. Reportedly this helps reduce pain and inflammation in their patient's injuries, and stimulates healing. From my very cursory search, the efficacy of light therapy is a spicy topic and research is ongoing. Here's a link to a metastudy https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9951699/

A Systematic Literature Review of Complementary and Alternative Veterinary Medicine: Laser Therapy

Light therapy, or photobiomodulation, is a collective name for methods where tissue is irradiated with different types of light, with the aim of stimulating healing. The group includes methods such as laser, Light Emitting Diode (LED) light, ultra ...

PubMed Central (PMC)

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Martin Rundkvist Mar 9

@owlsintowels
I believe that the owl charity would do well to avoid non-evidence-based treatments. Both in terms of the charity's credibility and of the owls' health outcomes.

I for one would not donate to fund these treatments.