Traumatic injury
The traumatic injuries can occur for very different reasons, these lesions can be variable in magnitude affecting soft tissue, musculoskeletal system, or both. The traumatic injuries can cause bruises, cuts, sprains, dislocations and fractures.
Trauma comes from a Greek term meaning “wound“. It is a physical injury caused by an external agent. Sprains, fractures and dislocations, and contusions are examples of trauma.
Bruises
Injuries caused by impact or hit with objects. The skin is left intact, but the crushing deep tissue bleeding occurs in varying degrees.
In the first degree concussion, can be affected capillaries, causing the skin to take a purple color. You have to keep the area at rest and apply ice or cold packs.
The second level occur when shock injury produce larger vessels, causing producing a liquid collection and is called relief hematoma or bump. You have to do what with the injury to first grade and never try to squeeze or drain the hematoma.
In third grade, the skin can become gray, there is a suppression of fat and muscle that can be reduced to a mass, affecting other internal structures such as nerves, bones, etc. This can occur through heavy or crushing fall. If the injury is cold, hard and swollen, blistered skin, there is a lack of surface sensitivity but pain when deep palpation is present other problems such as fractures and wounds, it must move the victim to a hospital emergency .
Wounds
Wounds may be blunt, sharp (surface), sharp (piercing) atriciones, mixed, burns, bullet or firearm, erosive or abrasive, yet these may be superficial, deep, to the bone, including fractures, simple or complicated.
Sprain
It is an injury to the ligaments that surround a joint. Ligaments are strong, flexible fibers that hold bones together when they are stretched too far or tears, the joint will become painful and inflamed.
Dislocations
They consist of the permanent separation of the joint surfaces and subluxations defined as a partial separation of them, this results in excruciating pain, tenderness to palpation, and deformity.
Fractures
Loss of continuity or indemnity of a product from a blow or fall bone, is characterized by pain, deformity, angulation, increased volume and loss of movement. These can be simple (only break in the bone), complicated (damage to other structures), closed or open (when the fracture communication with the environment).
Dr. Juan Martínez Caamaño
Dr. Martinez is certified in the specialty of traumatology and orthopedics and medical techniques used to correct or prevent physical degeneration or malformation procedures and pains, injuries and other conditions that affect the musculoskeletal system of the body.