Traumatic tattoos. Traumatic tattoos can happen with more severe forms of road rash. Traumatic tattoos occur when items such as dirt, rocks, glass, or metal get lodged into your skin.
Pain management.Ibuprofen and acetaminophen are two over-the-counter medications that can help to manage the pain you may experience from road rash. Your doctor might also give you a prescription for pain medication.
Road Rash is a motorcycle racing video game series by Electronic Arts in which the player participates in violent, illegal street races. The series started on the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive and was released on various other systems over the years. The game's title is based on the slang term for the severe friction burns that can occur in a motorcycle fall where skin comes into contact with the ground at high speed.
Six different games were released from 1991 to 2000, and an alternate version of one game was developed for the Game Boy Advance. The Sega Genesis trilogy was re-released in EA Replay for the PlayStation Portable. The series sold 3 million units by 1998.[1]
Road Rash debuted on the Sega Genesis in 1991. The game takes place in California, on progressively longer two-lane roads. The two-player mode allows two people to play alternating. There are 14 other opponents in a race. A port of the game was released for the Amiga, and various scaled-down versions were made for Master System, Game Gear, and Game Boy. The Game Boy version is one of two licensed games that is incompatible with the Game Boy Color and newer consoles in the Game Boy line.[2] A SNES version was planned and then canceled.[citation needed]
Road Rash II was released in 1992 for the Sega Genesis. The sequel took the engine and sprites from the first game and added more content. The largest addition was proper two-player modes: "Split Screen" versus the other computer opponents, and the duel mode "Mano A Mano". The races take place all across the United States: Alaska, Hawaii, Tennessee, Arizona, and Vermont. The list of bikes has been increased to fifteen (separated into three classes, with the later ones featuring nitro boosts), and a chain was added to supplement the club. Other details include the navigation of the menu screens being considerably easier; and more manageable passwords, being less than half the size of the first game.
Road Rash was released in 1994 for CD-based platforms such as 3DO, Sega CD, PlayStation, Sega Saturn, and Microsoft Windows. It features a number of changes such as the ability to choose characters (with various starting cashpiles and bikes, some with starting weapons) before playing, fleshed-out reputation and gossip systems and full-motion video sequences to advance a plot. The game features all-California locales: The City, The Peninsula, Pacific Coast Highway, Sierra Nevada, and Napa Valley. The roads themselves feature brief divided road sections.
Road Rash 3 was released in 1995 for the Sega Genesis. Races take place across the world, each level featuring five of seven total locales: Brazil, the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, Kenya, Australia, and Japan. In addition to the standard fifteen bikes, four part upgrades are available for each. Eight weapons are available, and Road Rash 3 introduces the player's ability to hold on to weapons between races and the ability to accumulate multiple weapons.
Road Rash 3D was released in 1998 for the PlayStation. The game is mostly not based on sprites. The race courses were pieced together from an interconnected series of roads. The game has less emphasis on combat in exchange for a stronger emphasis on the racing.
Road Rash 64 was released in 1999 for the Nintendo 64. Electronic Arts did not design or publish it; the intellectual property rights were licensed to THQ, which in turn had its own Pacific Coast Power & Light (founded by former EA employee Don Traeger) develop the game.
Road Rash: Jailbreak was released in 2000 for the PlayStation, with a handheld port released in 2003 for the Game Boy Advance with the same title.[3] New features include an interconnected road system and two-player cooperative play with a sidecar.
The Sega Genesis trilogy features music by EA composers Rob Hubbard (1 and II), Michael Bartlow (1), Tony Berkeley (II), and Don Veca (II and 3).[6] Later entries were among the first video games to include licensed music tracks from major recording artists in gameplay.[7]
Criterion Games considered developing a new Road Rash game multiple times, potentially a Burnout Versus Road Rash,[8][9] but nothing has come of this; they have also expressed a desire to move away from racing games in particular.[10] Dan Geisler, main programmer and co-designer of the Sega Genesis trilogy, was working on a new title along with a number of the original Road Rash staff members, then named Hard Rider: Back in the Saddle; he first announced it via a Reddit thread,[11] and frequently mentioned progress on his Twitter account,[12] but was unable to find funding for it and dropped the idea.[13]
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Road rash is type of friction burn or skin abrasion that occurs when you scrape your skin against something rough. Sometimes, these injuries are called raspberries or strawberries. Whatever you want to call them, they can be painful but are commonly treated at home.
Road rash is a superficial injury to the skin. The outer tissue is ripped away by a rub or a scrape against another object. Most of the time, road rash is a minor injury, but sometimes the injury can take off several layers of skin and require skin grafting surgery to help it heal correctly.
Road rash occurs more frequently in the spring and summer due to the weather and more people choosing outdoor activities. People sometimes choose to wear less clothing in the spring and the summer, which means they have less protection for their skin in the case of falls or accidents.
Most cases of road rash can be treated at home without going to the doctor or hospital. However, you should always monitor injuries for signs of infection or additional damage to the body. Follow these steps to treat your injury:
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The symptoms of road rash will depend on how deep the injury is. Even with mild abrasions that do not go much deeper than the top layer of skin, or epidermis, there is usually pain and bleeding. In fact, road rash can be more painful than a puncture wound, as it affects more nerve endings.
It is important to treat road rash as soon as possible after sustaining the injury. Cleaning out the wound is essential to prevent infection and remove any foreign bodies that may be in the wound. Doing so will help prevent a form of scarring known as tattooing.
For healthcare professionals, two of the key steps in diagnosing road rash are performing a thorough physical examination and learning when the incident happened, how it took place, and what injured the skin.
Abrasions can be linear (such as when they are due to a scratch) or appear in groups (as a result of dragging the skin over an uneven surface). In some cases, the road rash wound can even take on the pattern of whatever it was that damaged the skin.
There are some newer ideas on road rash healing. My doctor recommended that I NOT use Neosporin type ointments. The reason being that it only has an affect on the superficial layers of the wound and that infection, if it occurs, will be in the deeper layers; and also that topicals are shown to interfere with wound healing. He also told me not to use hydrogen peroxide as it damages tissue. The keys to healing and preventing scarring are to keep the wounds clean and moist.
Semipermeable film dressings, such as Bioclusive (Johnson & Johnson, New Brunswick, New Jersey) andTegaderm (3M Company, St Paul), in combination with semiocclusive hydrogels such as Spenco 2nd Skin (Spenco Medical Corp, Waco, Texas). These dressings are impermeable to water and bacteria but allow the exudate to evaporate."
The main idea is to keep scabs from forming. Scabbing retards the healing process greatly, and will increase scarring. The Neosporin that was suggested above and other generic antibiotic ointments help with this; this is an economical solution. You can get gauze that is already impregnated with Neosporin-like things, or you can apply the ointment to the wound and then put regular gauze on top. For large areas, it can be hard to keep the bandage on the wound which is why I recommend other products like Tegaderm.
Tegaderm and similar products that are designed for burn victims work great. The nice thing about tegaderm is that you can stick it on the rash (once it's clean) and then leave it on there. It stays on the wound without needing tape or other adhesives, but it doesn't pull or damage the healing skin when/if you pull it off. It forms a protective "skin-like" layer while the skin underneath grows back. You can leave it on for a long time without changing, and it speeds the healing immensely.
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