#INSECT PRAGMATA SKIN#
Trauma may induce many types of skin eruptions, and this damage may only be microtrauma from wind, dust, sunshine, etc. Thus, immediate attention is required for all blisters and skin infections. Later in the season, subcallus blisters are a concern.Ĭraig offers the reminder that if all minor infections are recognized and treated during their early stage, healing will be faster, and the risk of cross-infection among a team will be greatly reduced. Most friction injuries occur early in the athletic season before the player's skin has had chance to accommodate the stress.
Depending on the degree and chronicity of pressure, friction injuries produce late calluses and early painfully tender blisters, erosions, or fissures. The common skin injuries treated are contusions, abrasions, and friction injuries. Thus, managing posttraumatic skin disorders is as much preventive as it is therapeutic. Any abrasion, puncture, or open wound offers a potential site for secondary infection. The "true" skin just beneath the epidermis is abundant with connective tissue that readily serves as a nest for infection that is easily transported throughout the body by veins and lymphatics. The surface layer of the skin is usually quite tough. The skin is the first to suffer in almost all injuries from extrinsic forces. It contains the same basic elements as do major organs: connective tissue, blood and lymph vessels, nerves and glands. It is selectively permeable, serves as a homeostatic mechanism, and attempts to regulate temperature despite external extremes.
Just 1 square inch of surface area contains over 3,000,000 cells, 4 yards of nerves, and at least a yard of capillaries. It has excretory, secretory, absorptive, synthetic, and sensory functions. The skin is the largest organ of the body and has unique characteristics providing a vital interface between internal and external environments. Several types of skin infection have their highest incidence in a warm moist locker room environment. Descriptions of some types of skin trauma such as bites, burns, infestations, and toxic eruptions are brief or omitted because they do not fall within the general scope of this paper. In this final paper of this series, we limit our concern to the management of skin problems especially related to skin trauma associated with the musculoskeletal injuries. Infections, rashes, torn nails, and various eruptions are often encountered. Infections, Infestations, and Toxic EruptionsĪ few dermatologic conditions are seen in posttraumatic care as primary disorders, many as secondary states. Sensitivity Eczema (Atopic or Allergic Derma. Monograph 28 ~ SKIN AND NAIL TRAUMA AND RELATED DISORDERSĭisorders Often Related to Skin Trauma in Athletics or Physical Labor
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