What causes tissue damage?

Tissue damage happens when something hurts or breaks parts of your body, just like when you drop your favorite toy and it cracks.

Imagine your skin is like a blanket that covers your body. When you get a scratch or a bruise, it's like someone pulled the blanket too hard or hit it with a soft rock, your skin gets damaged because of the push or pull from outside.

Think about a cookie that’s been in the oven for too long, it becomes crunchy and might break when you bite into it. Your body is like that cookie sometimes. When something inside your body, like a muscle or bone, gets stretched or squeezed too much, maybe from falling down or lifting something heavy, it can break or tear, just like the cookie.

So tissue damage is all about things being pushed, pulled, broken, or bruised, and it happens to you every day!