A severe bruise is a type of serious traumatic damage to soft tissues, subcutaneous tissue and possibly nearby parts of the musculoskeletal system. Severe bruise of limbs. Severe head injury. Severe bruise of the abdomen.
Knee injury is considered a frequent and frivolous injury, but such damage can lead to quite serious consequences. What causes a knee injury? How does the knee injury appear? What if you have a knee injury?
Contusion of the chest - a frequent phenomenon in traumatology, associated with domestic, sports, production and other reasons. How to determine the bruise of the chest? Chest bruise with fractured ribs. Chest bruise: treatment and care of the patient.
A head injury is a trauma to the soft tissues of the skull, most often closed. How to recognize a head injury? How is the head contusion manifested? What if you got a head injury?
Treatment of victims with a spinal cord injury is an extremely topical problem of modern medicine. Every year in Ukraine, spinal cord injuries are received by about 2000 people, mostly young people of working age who become disabled I (80%) and II groups. In the United States, 8,000-10,000 cases of this type of injury are recorded each year. Trauma of the spinal cord is not only medical, but also social.
Injury of peripheral nerves is, in the opinion of different authors, from 1.5 to 3.5% of the total traumatism in peacetime, and on loss of ability to work it occupies one of the first places and often leads to severe disability of patients in almost 65% of cases.
Many patients who have suffered severe head injury remain disabled due to mental disorders, memory loss, movement disorders, speech, iostraumatic epilepsy and other causes.
Brain compression is the most severe and most dangerous type of craniocerebral trauma, it is noted in 3-5% of victims with CCT. It is characterized by rapid growth after any time after trauma or immediately after it of cerebral and focal symptoms. First of all, violations of the functions of the stem departments, and represents an immediate threat to the life of the patient.
The term "diffuse axonal brain damage" was first proposed in 1982 by JH Adams, and pathology itself as a separate form of craniocerebral trauma was first described in 1956 by SJ Strich, who observed patients who were and vegetative status.
