Trauma Explained

Trauma most often refers to:

• Psychological trauma, in psychology and psychiatric medicine, refers to severe mental injury caused by a distressing event
• Traumatic injury, sudden physical injury caused by an external force, which does not rise to the level of major trauma
  • Major trauma, in physical medicine, severe physical injury caused by an external source

Trauma may also refer to:

People

• Trauma (wrestler)
• Trauma II (born 1982), Mexican luchador enmascarado, or masked professional wrestler

Arts, entertainment, and media

Films

• Trauma (1962 film), an American film by Robert M. Young
• Red Rings of Fear (1978), a film sometimes known as Trauma
• Trauma (1993 film), a horror film by Dario Argento
• Trauma (2004 film), a psychological thriller by Marc Evans

Music

Groups and record labels

• Trauma (American band), an American heavy metal band
• Trauma (German band), a German trance band
• Trauma (Polish band), a Polish death metal band
• Trauma Records, a record label

Albums

• Trauma (DJ Quik album), 2005
• Trauma (I Prevail album), 2019

Songs

• "Trauma", by Ayumi Hamasaki from A and Loveppears, 1999
• "Trauma", by Doja Cat, 2014
• "Trauma", by Exo from Love Shot, 2018
• "Trauma", by NF from The Search, 2019
• "Trauma", by PartyNextDoor from Partymobile, 2020
• "Trauma", by Seventeen from Teen, Age, 2017
• "Trauma", by SF9 from Rumination, 2021
• "Trauma", by Snovi from Ciklus, 2014
• "Day Twelve: Trauma", by Ayreon from The Human Equation, 2004

Periodicals

• Trauma (journal), a quarterly peer-reviewed medical journal
• Trauma, Violence, & Abuse, a peer-reviewed academic journal that covers research

Television

• Trauma (Canadian TV series), a 2010 medical drama set in Montreal
• Trauma (American TV series), a 2009 medical drama set in San Francisco
• Trauma (British TV series), a 2018 miniseries set in London

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

• Trauma (comics), a character associated with Avengers: The Initiative in the Marvel Universe
• Trauma (novel), a 2008 novel by British author Patrick McGrath
• Trauma (video game), a 2011 graphic adventure game
• Trauma Center (video game series), a surgical-based video game
• Trauma Studios, an American computer game development company

Medicine

• Dental trauma, trauma to the teeth and/or gums and/or nearby soft tissues
• Trauma team, a multidisciplinary group of healthcare workers who collectively work together
• Traumatic alopecia, a cutaneous condition that results from the forceful pulling out of the scalp hair
• Traumatic anserine folliculosis, a curious gooseflesh-like follicular hyperkeratosis
• Traumatic bone cyst, a condition of the jaws
• Traumatic neuroma, a type of neuroma which results from trauma to a nerve, usually during a surgical procedure
• Traumatology, scientific study of injuries caused by external sources

Sports

• Los Traumas, a Mexican professional wrestling tag team

See also

• Beautiful Trauma, an album by Pink
• Troma Entertainment, film company specializing in independent, horror, and exploitation films