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.

1. Road Rash Scar
2. Road Rash Treatment

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.

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. 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. 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. The term may be applied to both a fresh injury and also to the scar tissue left by an old injury. Symptoms may include pain and heavy ble.

Could the wound be infected even though you cleaned it? Even though it’s already been two days, should you go see a doctor?

Road Rash is a motorcycle combat racing game that started many sequels and inspired even more games. Unlike your regular racing game, Road Rash has a unique feature that allows players and other racers to attack rivals while on a high-speed race, even if that means putting their lives at risk. Carmageddon plus bikes (and actual racing). Race around a bunch of tracks with little regard for property, pedestrians, or public law officials. Show good sportsmanship by punching out your fellow bikers.

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.

If you’ve recently been injured in a motorcycle accident and need help, advice, and guidance when filing your injury claim, contact us today. The consultation is free, but we’ll give you the support you need to get the settlement you deserve. We’re waiting to help you.

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Videogames let us do all kinds of silly or impossible things. Just taken that bad guys full ammo clip in the chest? No problem, here’s a first aid kit and you’re good as new. Road Rash lets you race motorbikes through rush hour traffic, while fighting with other riders. Fall from your bike and you simply get up and run back to it, rather than end up in a body bag. Never let realism stand in the way of a fun game, we say. This version of Road Rash is based on the 3DO version and is a partial remake of the original, which featured on 16 bit consoles and computers.

Road Rash Scar

Installation

Road Rash should install on 32 bit versions of Windows without any issues. Unfortunately, the installer is a 16 bit executable and therefore won’t run on 64 bit versions of Windows. Fortunately, it was relatively easy for us to produce a replacement installer, that will work on any version of Windows. You can download it here (link broken? let me know here).

Road Rash Treatment

Simply download the installer, make sure your Road Rash CD is in your CD/DVD drive and then run it. Follow the on-screen prompts to install the game. When installation is finished, you can launch the game from the Start menu or Start screen by launching “Road Rash” or “Road Rash (alt launch method)”. See the troubleshooting section for more information about the alt launch method version. If the game fails to start, you may need to browse to the game folder and set the “RASHME.exe” program to run in compatibility mode for Windows 95.

Tweaking visual quality

Before you start playing the game you should check that the games graphical settings are set to their maximum settings. This doesn’t just make the game look better, it actually helps it run on more modern PCs since the lowest resolution settings are not commonly supported on the PC any more. From the main menu choose “Restroom”, then choose “Graphics Options”. Make sure that “Race Resolution” is set to 640×480. Biker Resolution should be set to “High” and “Videos” to “Large Videos”.

Once you’ve configured these options, select “Done”. You’re now ready to race, but if you want to use a gamepad, read on to the next section first.

Configuring controllers

Road Rash was released before analogue game controllers were common and so only supports digital controls in-game. That means if you have a controller such as an Xbox 360 or Playstation 3 pad, you won’t be able to assign the accelerate and brake controls to the analogue triggers. Our old friend Xpadder can come to the rescue once again. Here’s our basic layout for the game.

With this layout, you can use either the D-pad or the analogue stick for steering. The D-Pad can also be used to navigate menus, with the Start button used to select an option or Escape to move back up a menu. The analogue triggers control acceleration and braking. Combat is done using the face buttons, except for the A button which triggers a nitro boost, if you have one. The left shoulder button causes you to dismount your bike, not that you will need to do that very often.

Looking through the keyboard controls for the game, you will see that there are two keys you can press to lean the bike. The game is more about dodging traffic than tackling sharp corners, so in actual fact you won’t need this that often. However, we can use one of the advanced features of Xpadder to emulate this on the analogue stick. Using distance zones, it is possible to tell Xpadder that we want to send different key presses based on how far the stick is pressed. So at close to 100%, we send the lean key along with the arrow key. For a full tutorial on distance zones, see this link.

Below is a picture of the distance zone we set up.

We used 80% as our trigger amount, meaning the analogue stick needs to be moved at least 80% of the way before the bike will lean. Even with this setting the controls felt fairly sensitive, so don’t be afraid to dial that number up to 90 or even 95 if you feel it’s necessary.

Troubleshooting

Game colours are corrupt/incorrect:- If when you start the game or start a race, the games colours appear corrupt, try launching the game using the “Road Rash (alt launch method)” shortcut. Running the game this way shuts down Windows Explorer before the game starts, which usually prevents the graphical corruption. When you have finished playing, make sure the command prompt window is selected then press any key on the keyboard and your desktop will re-appear.

Game fails to start at all:- If nothing appears to happen when you try to launch the game, open the Road Rash installation folder (C:ElectronicArtsRoadRash by default) and set the compatibility mode options for the “RASHME” executable to run the game in compatibility mode for Windows 95. If you need a tutorial on setting compatibility options, click here.