The effects of tearing the wings off an angel

The backstory for a key character in my story involves him receiving a harsh punishment for becoming corrupt. The tearing off of the wings themselves is easy to write. It's the state he's left in afterwards that I need help on. Sadly (or fortunately?), no one seems to have written articles on 'ripping the wings off of birds'.

In Disney's Maleficent, her lover cuts off her wings and she finds it difficult to walk afterwards and uses a stick. Would this be accurate? Or would it only be as traumatic as losing an arm? Since the wings would be connected to various ligaments and muscles in the back, would it cripple him permanently? Would it affect the spine?

I'm asking for a logical, biological based answer. If I wanted to, I could just bypass facts and write away (it is fantasy after all). I'd like it to be as realistic as possible.

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