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Determine the type of trauma in each case.

A person steps on a nail and receives a puncture wound.


A person is verbally abused for years and feels depressed.


A person is thrown from a bicycle and crashes into the pavement.

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1) Penetrating (open) physical trauma — a puncture wound from a nail (penetrating injury).

2) Psychological / emotional trauma — chronic verbal abuse causing psychological harm (chronic emotional trauma, risk for depression or complex PTSD).

3) Blunt (closed) physical trauma — impact with the pavement (blunt-force injury; may produce contusions, abrasions, fractures, or closed head injury).