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Thursday, May 23, 2013 Injury Prevention and Safety which color
bruise is considered to be the worst? Health professionals used
to rely on bruise color to estimate how recently an injury
occurred. However, it is well known now that bruise color is not
at all a reliable measure of how bad a bruise is or when the
injury occurred. Large bruises over the abdomen and pelvis that
may signal that serious damage has been done to the organs
underlying the bruise. The bruise itself is deceptive because
you can't see the underlying damage that is far more serious
than the visible discoloration. This can be deadly, especially
if organs rich in blood supply such as the liver and spleen are
damaged and the person bleeds to death internally. Of course,
bruises over the bone can mean that a hemorrhage occurs under
the bony covering calle