INTAS POLIVET
Open Access
  • Year: 2012
  • Volume: 13
  • Issue: 2

Traumatic Tendo-achilles Transection and its Surgical Management in a Bullock

  • Author:
  • Sidhartha Sankar Behera, Prasanta Kumar Sika, Sadananda Nayak
  • Total Page Count: 3
  • Page Number: 243 to 245

Department of Veterinary Surgery and Radiology, College of Veterinary Science and Animal Husbandry, Odisha University of Agriculture and Technology, Bhubaneswar - 751003 (Odisha)

*Corresponding Author E-mail: drsidharthavety2006@gmail.com

Online published on 19 March, 2013.

Abstract

A bullock with traumatic severed tendo-achilles was presented for treated. The tendon ends were identified and repaired with tenorrhaphy. Whole limb immobilization was undertaken to support faster healing and recovery. After 45 days the splint were removed and passive physiotherapy was undertaken for 15 days till weight bearing and clinical recovery.

Keywords

Achilles tendon, bullock, immobilisation, repair, rupture