Injury

The knee of a patient is examined with help of radiography after an injury.

Injury is damage to a biological organism which can be classified on various bases.

Classification

By ultimate cause

• Intentional injury
  • Suicide and self-harm
  • Violence and war
• Accidents

By modality

• Traumatic injury, a body wound or shock produced by sudden physical collision or movement
• Other injuries from external physical causes, such as radiation poisoning, burn, or frostbite
• Injury from toxin or as adverse effect of a pharmaceutical drug

By location

• Wound, an injury in which skin is torn, cut or punctured (an open wound), or where blunt force trauma causes a contusion (a closed wound). In pathology, it specifically refers to a sharp injury which damages the dermis of the skin.
• Brain injury
• Spinal cord injury
• Nerve injury
• Soft tissue injury
• Cell damage, including direct DNA damage

By activity

• Sports injury
• Occupational injury

See also

• List of causes of death by rate