Usually, it is a sports injury from a baseball, basketball, softball, soccer ball or paintball ... broken blood vessels ...

You can get rid of bruises by icing the area as soon as possible after the injury. After 48 hours, you can apply a heating pad to help your body break up the trapped blood. Using an elastic ...

Hematomas involve severe bruising and cann swell and grow as blood leaks into tissue under your skin. You can treat both bruises and hematomas at home with the RICE method and OTC acetaminophen.

But what exactly is a bruise? Bruising can occur as a result of an injury or a knock; blood vessels underneath the skin break or burst and blood leaks out under the skin. This causes the purplish ...