Horses can quite often obtain an injury to an area on the back of their ankles above their hooves; specifically this area above each hoof is known as the heel bulb. The treatment for horse heel bulb lacerations is first aid and veterinary care. Heel bulb lacerations are often caused when horses get their feet [...]

Every year thousands of people are severely injured in automobile accidents. Hepatic injuries and more specifically, liver lacerations are most common in auto accidents where there are decelerations injuries. Most often there is a crash and the body is thrown forward into the steering wheel. With that, the right rib cage is fractured, and the [...]

Pictures of lacerations of the tongue can be found on the internet and in medical books, and even in a patients medical record. Lacerations of the tongue can result from falls, blunt force trauma, bites from seizure activity, and automobile accidents. You can go to a search engine and pull up pictures of lacerations of [...]

Tongue lacerations can happen to anyone by accident. Tongue lacerations are usually the result of some sort of accident, such as hitting ones chin on a hard surface. Sometimes children suffer tongue lacerations due to falling; but sadly in children, not all tongue lacerations are accidental; some are inflicted through child abuse. As a parent, [...]

Traffic accidents happen every minute of every day. One of the worst accidents notorious for leg lacerations is the motorcycle accident. When a motor bike crashes into another vehicle or the rider loses control and an unprotected cyclist lays it down in the road, there may not be much left but teeth, hair, and eyeballs. [...]

When face lacerations happen, most people have quite a few concerns. Of all the locations for lacerations to take place, the face is generally the most visible. Taking the right steps to promote healing and prevent scarring is vital. How to handle first aid for face lacerations will depend a great deal on how severe [...]

As you labor to give birth your baby makes his/her way down the birth canal. The tissues of your vagina are made to stretch as the baby comes down. A primiparaeprim-i-para(woman in first pregnancy) is most likely to receive 4th degree perineal lacerations. Delivering mothers can receive 4th degree perineal lacerations even with an episiotomy. [...]

Every woman is unique. The very part that makes her a woman is as unique as her fingerprints. Her most private womanly parts are the labia majora and labia minora. Some woman have large labia, just as many woman are large breasted; it is perfectly normal to have large labia. Childbirth can affect the size [...]

A laceration is the more medical term for any kind of tear or cut in the skin. The laceration may be small or large depending on the cause of the laceration, that is from a sharp object, such as a knife or shard of glass, or a more traumatic cause due to a blow to [...]

Birthing at home is not new, yet it seems new because so many women birth in hospitals. Birthing in a hospital is fine; however you may not get the option to deliver in the most comfortable of positions. Baring any unseen complications during childbirth, birthing at home is a much better option for some women [...]

Horse enthusiasts know that to own horses is huge undertaking. Owners have a responsibility to take adequate care of them, which not only includes feeding them and corralling them, but they have to take care of their medical needs. Horse lacerations are a major concern because they are frequently getting scraped up or cut on [...]

The most common non-obstetrical vaginal laceration is caused by the females very first experience with sexual intercourse. The hymen, the layer of tissue that partially covers the vaginal orifice tears away and sometimes bleeds with the first sexual intercourse experience. This is normal and heals very quickly. Non-obstetrical vaginal lacerations can be considered fairly minor, [...]

Horses often get injured during their activities of daily life. They can step on pieces of glass or sharp metal. Horses often step through barbed wire fences, lacerating their pectoral (chest) muscles, as well as their legs. Treatment for equine lacerations always includes first aid and very often an examination by an equine veterinarian. Horses [...]

Quite often women who have birthed a baby will develop small postpartum vagina lacerations, as well as lacerations to the surrounding tissues of the perineum. The vagina is asked to stretch wide enough for the head and shoulders of an infant to pass through, which are the widest parts of the infant. In the beginning, [...]

Some of the most frequent injuries that present to hospital emergency departments are lip lacerations. Doctors must be very careful when repairing lip lacerations because we depend on our lips and the muscle structure around the lips for our expressions. We communicate nonverbally though many of our facial expressions; therefore, repair of lip lacerations can [...]

Almost from the beginning of time people have been adorning their bodies with some sort of art. Todays world is no different. Until fairly recently, it only seemed to be a certain type of person that would go to extremes, such as full body tattoos, or body piercing. A not so new trend is coming [...]

The winter months play havoc on the skin. The hands get dry and cracked, but even worse than the hands are the lips. As we crank up the heat in our homes to stay warm, the dry air pulls out the moisture in our lips; cracked dry infected lip lacerations are often the result. To [...]

As parents we know that our children will run around and get hurt from time to time. Your children may be running and playing in the living room and one falls into the corner of the coffee table. As a parent the first thing you might feel like doing is panicking, but don’t do it. [...]

Some of the worst injuries suffered in car crashes are those where the occupants were not wearing seatbelts. Deceleration injuries such as in motor vehicle accidents are very serious, and often fatal. Survivors of car wrecks often suffer broken bones about the face and facial lacerations. Often nerve damage is a result of facial lacerations; [...]

Diabetes foot lacerations are a result the effect of many factors related to the condition. Diabetes is a syndrome that affects every system and every organ in the body. The nervous, lymphatic and circulatory systems are often the first to take a hit when a person discovers they are diabetic. Often diabetes is not discovered [...]