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Wounds and Injuries

Bites, stinges, athletic injuries, back, dislocation, burns, contusions, frostbite, heat stroke, motion sickness, shock, spinal cord injuries, sprains, wound infections and related conditions.

Please check to see if your site is better suited to one of the sub-categories before submitting.

Bites and Stings

Bites by animals and humans as well as insect stings and how to treat them.

Please submit articles or websites pertaining to bites and stings.

Sites selling products will not be listed here.

Burns

A burn is a type of injury to the skin caused by heat, electricity, chemicals, or radiation.

First-degree burns are usually limited to redness and pain at the site.

Second-degree burns have blistering of the skin.

Third-degree burns have charring of the skin, the nerve endings are burnt away.

Please submit websites or articles about burns to this area.

Sites pertaining to burn care should be submitted to the proper subcategory.

Fractures

Breach in continuity of a bone. Types of fractures include simple, compound, comminuted, greenstick, incomplete, impacted, longitudinal, oblique, stress or transverse.

Please submit only sites or articles pertaining to fractures to this area.

Sites selling products should be submitted to Shopping.

Heat Related

Heat exhaustion, heatstroke and sunstroke.

Hypothermia

Recognition and treatment of hypothermia and frostbite.

Sunburn is an inflammation of the skin that develops in response to exposure to ultraviolet (UV) radiation from the sun or from tanning beds and booths that emit UV radiation. Sunburn is manifested by reddened, painful skin that may develop blisters.

Submit only sites that discuss this type of injury to the skin.

Sites submitted to this area must be in English.

Ulcers

Circulatory diseases, both arterial and venous, frequently lead to wounds. Arterial and venous wounds differ from each other and require different approaches. These sites address one or both types of vascular wounds.