by: Nicole T. Sanzo

Common examples of personal injury accidents include:

• Car Accidents
• Tractor-Trailer Accidents
• Motorcycle Accidents
• Bicycle Accidents
• Pedestrian Accidents
• Slip and Falls

Common Injuries Resulting from a Personal Injury Accident

Personal injury accidents can cause a wide range of injuries from minor lacerations to broken bones. Some injuries only require minimal medical treatments where others can require years of rehabilitation. Some of the most common injuries seen in personal injury are:

Soft Tissue Injuries

A soft tissue injury refers to damage to the muscles, ligaments and tendons throughout the body. These types of injuries can cause significant pain and limit mobility. Soft tissue injuries typically take one to six weeks to heal, though it can take longer for more severe injuries.

Common types of soft tissue injury include:

• Strains: A strain is when you overstretch or tear a muscle. You can strain a muscle by pulling it too hard or for too long. Sudden movement with a lot of force or repetitive movements with normal force can cause muscle strains.
• Sprains: A sprain is a tear in a ligament that holds a joint together. Ligaments connect and stabilize the muscles and bones in a joint. When something forces a joint too far out of its normal range of motion, it can stretch and teat the ligament, wakening your joint.
• Contusions: A contusion is a bruise, which is what you see when broken blood vessels cause discoloration under your skin. This can be caused by a forceful impact.

Back and Spinal Cord Injuries

Back and spinal cord injuries can range from minor strains and sprains to severe spinal cord injuries.

Common types include:

• Herniated or ruptured disc: A bulge or rupture impacts the surrounding nerves. Leads to pain that radiates down legs, numbness and weakness.
• Spinal stenosis: A condition where the spaces within your spine narrow, potentially compressing the spinal cord and nerves.
• Sprains and strains

Bone Fractures

A bone fracture is a break in the continuity of the bone. This can range from a simple crack to a complex break in which the bone is in multiple pieces. Fractures can generally take six to twelve weeks to heal.

Common types of bone fractures include:

• Open (Compound) Fracture: The broken bone protrudes through the skin, or a deep wound exposes the bone.
• Closed (Simple) Fracture: The bone is broken, but the skin remains intact.
• Comminuted Fracture: The bone is shattered into three or more pieces.

Head, Neck, and Facial Injuries

Common types include:

• Traumatic brain injury (TBI): Damage to the brain caused by external physical force.
• Lacerations: Cuts, tears or abrasions on the skin.
• Whiplash: A sudden jolting of the head and neck. This can cause strain on the neck muscles and ligaments.
• Broken nose, jaw or cheekbone

Internal Injuries

Internal injuries include those that cause damage to organs, blood vessels, or internal tissues. Internal injuries may result from two types of traumas: blunt trauma or penetrating trauma. Blunt trauma is when the body collides with an object causing blood vessels to be crushed or torn. Penetrating trauma is when an object penetrates the body and tears into blood vessels, muscles, and internal organs.

Common types include:

• Internal bleeding: This can occur anywhere in the body where blood vessels are crushed or torn
• Organ damage: Primarily to liver, kidney, spleen or lungs.

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Sources:

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/soft-tissue-injury

https://www.webmd.com/first-aid/internal-bleeding-causes-signs

https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseases/fractures

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