It has been two days since your unfortunate motorcycle accident caused the wounds on your legs and forearms. You were riding your motorcycle behind a minivan who had just turned out of Pacci’s. When you approached the intersection at Sligo, you noticed a pizza box on the hood of the car. The next thing you knew, the box flew off the car—catapulting scalding hot pizza all over you. Obviously, you weren’t prepared for this, and wound up crashing your bike to the ground—dragging your body with it.
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- Road rash is a colloquial term for skin injury caused by abrasion with road surfaces, often as a consequence of cycling and motorcycling accidents. It may also result from running, inline skating, roller skating, skateboarding, and longboarding accidents.
- Road Rash includes a classic roster of music, mostly grunge and all the gnarly crotch rocket noises needed. You will tear this game up and love it. Choose your biker, win cash, buy new bikes and race more. There are only five tracks here and they get a little repetitive but the racing will not.
- Road Rash, the most aggressive motorcycle racing game ever, explodes on your Windows PC with hard-hitting, full-throttle action that?ll bring you to your freshly skinned knees. Dodge traffic, outrace cops, and thrash pedestrians on your way to winning the Cup and becoming the menace to society your mother always worried about.
Although the accident was humorously ridiculous in hindsight, your road rash isn’t funny. Even though you’ve cleaned it and bandaged it, it appears to be getting worse. It stopped bleeding, but it’s really hot to the touch and you can see pus.
Could the wound be infected even though you cleaned it? Even though it’s already been two days, should you go see a doctor?
Symptoms of Infection
Your skin is your first defense against infections and diseases. However, when your skin is scraped, cut, or peeled off, bacteria, infections, and diseases have a clear path into your blood stream. Unfortunately, this is the case for many motorcyclists who experience road rash. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that nearly 200,000 motorcyclists a year suffer from some sort of accident-related road rash.
Studies performed by The Mayo Clinic, as well as the CDC, have also found that an increase of “super bug” infections—MRSA and other antibiotic resistant infections—are becoming more and more common in road rash victims. This is why it is extremely important to be able to recognize signs of infection before becoming too late to treat your infection.
Common symptoms of infection include:
- Redness. Although a wound can become red from mere inflammation, if the redness spreads or gets darker, you may have an infection.
- Increased pain. If the pain worsens over time, an infection may be present.
- Swelling. Swelling is a common side effect of scrapes, but if the swelling doesn’t subside or if it gets worse over time, it could be a sign of an infection.
- Radiating heat. If your wound feels warm to the touch, it could be an indicator that your body is trying to fight off an infection.
- Pulsing. If you feel as though your wound is pulsating you may have an infection.
- Drainage. Any drainage is a classic sign of infection. White blood cells attempt to fight bacteria and fluid is produced as a result of dead cells, bacteria, and toxins.
- Fever. When an infection affects the blood stream, you may experience flu like symptoms such as fatigue and a fever.
Fighting the Infection and Cause
If you experience any of the above symptoms after a road rash accident, seek medical attention immediately. Although it may not seem like a big deal, an infection can cause serious damage to your tissue and bone—even result in poisoning your blood. Don’t take chances and see your doctor.
Fighting an infection can be an exhausting and unnerving experience, but having to fight your insurance company in addition to your injuries can be even worse. We know how frustrating it can be to deal with your injury claim while you’re still recovering. Fortunately, you don’t have to go through it alone.
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| First release | Road Rash September 1991 |
| Latest release | Road Rash (Java) 2009 |
Road Rash is a motorcycleracing 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.
Games[edit]
Road Rash (1991)[edit]
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 person to play at a time. 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.[1] A SNES version was planned and then canceled.[citation needed]
Road Rash II (1992)[edit]
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 (1994)[edit]
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 (1995)[edit]
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 (1998)[edit]
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 (1999)[edit]
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 (2000)[edit]
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.[2] New features include an interconnected road system and two-player cooperative play with a sidecar.
Road Rash (Java) (2009)[edit]
Road Rash (Java) was released in 2009 for J2ME. It was sold on EA Mobile site only.[3]
Spiritual successor[edit]
A spiritual successor, Road Redemption, was later released in 2017 and 2018 for Microsoft Windows, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One.[4]
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Music[edit]
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).[5] Later entries were among the first video games to include licensed music tracks from major recording artists in gameplay.[6]
The rock radio station in EA's 2004 game The Urbz is called 'Road Rash FM',
Future[edit]
Criterion Games considered developing a new Road Rash game multiple times, potentially a Burnout Versus Road Rash,[7][8] but nothing has come of this; they have also expressed a desire to move away from racing games in particular.[9] 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,[10] and frequently mentioned progress on his Twitter account.[11] However, he was unable to find funding for it and dropped the idea.[12]
References[edit]
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- ^'What games written for GB will not work correctly on GBC & why ? - GB DEV FAQs by GeeBee'. GeeBee. Retrieved 2015-10-16.
- ^'Road Rash: Jailbreak (Game Boy Advance)'. IGN. Retrieved 2010-08-08.
- ^'Road Rash (Java); EA Mobile site'.
- ^https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2014-10-07-road-redemption-early-access-review
- ^'Road Rash Technical Details'. GameSpot. Archived from the original on 2009-03-25. Retrieved 2007-10-12.
- ^'Electronic Arts and BAM Magazine Announce the Road Rash Music Search'. Business Wire. 1999-05-28. Retrieved 2007-10-12.
- ^'Criterion will do another Burnout, interested in Road Rash'. GamesRadar. 2012-10-17. Retrieved 2015-09-05.
- ^'Criterion Games Dev Talks Cancelled Road Rash, Burnout Not in Development, Teases Non-Racing Game'. PlayStation LifeStyle. 2013-07-31. Retrieved 2015-09-05.
- ^[1]Archived October 30, 2013, at the Wayback Machine
- ^https://www.reddit.com/comments/1a5dd3
- ^https://twitter.com/DanGeislerSr
- ^'Dan Geisler on Twitter: 'Couldn't fund Hard Rider. It would have been fun. Kickstarter wasn't viable. Thank you all for the love an encouragement''. Twitter.com. Retrieved 2015-09-05.
External links[edit]
Road Rash Back Icd 10
- Road Rash series at MobyGames
