What is a stab wound?
Stab wounds are caused by sharp objects such as needles, knives or scissors that pierce the skin and cause considerable damage in deeper tissue layers. There is a great risk of infection in this type of injury, since pathogenic pathogens can be introduced into deeper tissue during the stabbing process or the wound can subsequently become infected due to contamination. At this point, the editors recommend the following article: Inflammation of a wound
Causes of a stab wound
Stab wounds can have many causes. They do not always have to be caused by intentional bodily harm in violent crimes. Small accidents also occur in everyday situations, such as a small stitch on the thorn of a flower or a stitch with a needle while sewing.
In medicine, for example, such stab wounds are caused by taking blood. There are also sports accidents caused by stab wounds. For example, during sporting activities, such as cycling, a fall onto a pointed object, or when playing soccer, a stab wound can be caused by the spikes on the shoes.
Associated symptoms
The accompanying symptoms of a stab wound include pain and usually only a small wound on the surface of the skin. The degree of pain depends on the severity of the stab wound. Deep injuries of organs, muscles, tendons or even bones are usually hardly visible from the outside.
It is very dangerous with such stab wounds that pathogens can also penetrate the wound or blood vessels in deeper tissue layers can be injured. In the case of a stab wound that has led to the development of a stab wound, the affected persons complain of pain of varying intensity depending on the severity of the injury. Although deeper damage is hardly visible and in many cases is associated with less bleeding, it usually causes greater pain than smaller stab wounds. This is mainly due to the fact that deeper injuries have penetrated larger tissue layers and accordingly caused greater damage.