Editing Sports injury (section)

=== Soft tissue injuries ===
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Soft tissue injuries can be divided into those that affect the connective tissue (such as the skin), ligaments, tendons, or muscles. Injuries affecting the integument or the skin, can be classified as contusions, abrasions, and lacerations. Contusions or bruises are the simplest and most common injuries and are usually a result of blunt force trauma. Severe contusions may involve deeper structures and can include nerve or vascular injury. Abrasions are superficial injuries to the skin that result from a shearing force and are no deeper than the most superficial tissue layer, the epidermis. Bleeding, when present, is minimal. Minor abrasions generally do not scar, but deeper abrasions generally bleed and may scar. Lacerations occur from blunt trauma and result in a puncture through the skin, leaving an open wound. Facial lacerations are the most variable of the soft tissue injuries that athletes can sustain. They can occur intraoral or extraoral, and vary from a superficial skin nick to a lip laceration, or involve significant vascular disruption or injury to collateral vital structures.<ref name="Lanzi 287–2982">{{Cite journal |last=Lanzi |first=Guy L. |date=2017-04-01 |title=Facial Injuries in Sports, Soft Tissue Injuries (Abrasions, Contusions, Lacerations) |journal=Clinics in Sports Medicine |volume=36 |issue=2 |pages=287–98 |doi=10.1016/j.csm.2016.11.008 |issn=0278-5919 |pmid=28314418}}</ref>

Another major set of soft tissue injuries are those that affect the tendons and ligaments involved in the function of weight bearing joints. Of the various ligament and tendon injuries sustained during sports, those that hold particular importance for sports medicine providers due to their high prevalence are described in the following table: