Therapy If a contusion is suspected, the current activity (sport) should be interrupted immediately. Cooling the area can be very helpful. . Cooling batteries or ice can be used for this. However, ice should never be placed directly on the skin, as severe cold can cause injuries to the skin and tissue! The treating doctor … Therapy | Breastbone contusion
Definition Bruises to the sternum (sternal contusions) are caused by direct and blunt trauma. The direct trauma could be a blow directly to the sternum, for example. During this trauma the tissue is bruised. Bruising, swelling or bruising marks may become visible. However, the skin is not visibly damaged. A bruise of the sternum can … Breastbone contusion
Even if the term sounds like it – traumatology has nothing to do with sweet dreams, but with painful reality. Its German counterpart, Unfallheilkunde, tends to evoke the right associations. Trauma in Greek means “wound, injury”. On the one hand, the term means any impact that damages the organism (“traumatizes”), e.g., an accident or a … Trauma Medicine (Traumatology)
Surgical interventions are already known from prehistoric and early times: There, not only wounds were treated, but also skulls were opened by scraping or drilling, fractures were treated, or obstetric techniques were practiced. The oldest document in which trauma surgery procedures are described (Papyrus Edwin Smith) comes from Egypt and is estimated to have been … Trauma Medicine (Traumatology): History
