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Sports Injuries - Quality of Injury
| Quality of Injury | ||
| Term | Also Known As | Description |
| acute | Strong, sharp, intense or severe; sudden; fast; short-term; or first phase, but not chronic. | |
| benign | An illness, condition, disease or tumor that does not invade adjacent tissue or spread throughout the body, and is not recurrent, progressive or dangerous to health. | |
| chronic | Frequent, continuous, slowly-developing, prolonged, or long-term; not acute. | |
| malignant | Aggressive, severe, progressively worse, and/or dangerous uncontrolled cell growth that can spread to, invade, and actively destroy normal surrounding tissue or other parts of the body. | |
| referred pain | Referred pain occurs when a sensation of physical distress or injury is noticed in a place that is not where the original sensation began. | |
