In any significant accident, cuts, bruises, and compound fractures are easily noticeable at the scene. However, it is possible to walk out of a seemingly bad accident with nothing more than a few visible bruises.
However, having a few bruises does not always mean that they are the only injuries you have sustained. Sometimes some internal injuries may not manifest until after a few hours or even days following a car accident. Why Some Injuries Take Time to Show Some injuries are slow to appear because of how the human body reacts in exciting, stressful, dangerous, or threatening situations.
These situations trigger the release of adrenaline, a flight and fight hormone that masks pain to allow a person to defend themselves or flee a dangerous situation.
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