Injury Going Through Clothing

A couple of thoughts your clothes are thicker and stronger than your skin and your clothes may be loose enough to have more give.

Linkat-

Thank you.

But somehow friction of something against my skin causes my skin to rip.

I don't know how old you are, but when you get older the skin on your arms get softer and thinner and tears very easily. I'm 78, and I have to be very careful when hiking. I wear heavy knit sleeves on my arms, and I still have to be very careful because a fall will tear open my skin.

Is the skin torn back, or do you have a laceration?

coluber-

I am 70 years of age.

In the subject area, I see a pink gelatinous-like area and a spot of deep red.

I was trying to understand how the force (?) or something of the fall goes through my shirt and jacket, arrives at my skin, and damages my skin without injuring my shirt or jacket. What caused the injury to my skin? The pressure (?) of my shirt on it?

That's typical for someone your age. Have you noticed that a bump on your arm produces a large liver-colored bruise that lasts two weeks.

If you fall or hit your arm with a glancing blow, the shirt grabs hold of your skin and just pulls it apart.


Go to the drugstore and get some good bandage pads and tape. When I wound my arm, I cut the bandage to size and tape it on very well. After two to three weeks I take it off, and there is virtually no scar.