A college student with a bruise on his leg got sick during a wrestling tournament. The bruise turned out to be a rare "flesh-eating" infection. Bacteria may have entered his body from a wrestling mat ...

A direct hit to your muscle or bone can cause bruising after exercise, which is bleeding underneath the skin due to tissue damage and broken blood vessels. The bruising can then result in mild, ...

If you've ever participated in a contact sport, experienced a car accident, been part of a physical altercation, or bumped into a piece of furniture in the dead of the night, chances are you know what ...

Bruises and hematomas may appear similar, but hematomas can be more serious and take longer to heal. Hematomas involve severe bruising and cann swell and grow as blood leaks into tissue under your ...

You've had a bump, blow, or knock to your body that was hard enough to damage small blood vessels under your skin. Blood leaks out of these blood vessels, called capillaries, and seeps into the ...

Waking up in the morning with a bruise you don't remember causing is not unusual for anybody. But if this starts to happen more and more often, or if you start to develop bruises from seemingly minor ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Waking up in the morning with a bruise you don't remember getting is not unusual. But if this starts to ...