Although it can look alarming, a burst blood vessel in the eye isn’t usually serious. Symptoms are often limited to redness and minor eye itching. It’s relatively easy to pop a blood vessel in ...

Blocked or compressed blood vessels can interfere with blood circulation to and from the heart. This can cause numbness and tingling in the arms, hands, legs, and feet. Treatment for circulation ...

But what exactly is a bruise? Bruising can occur as a result of an injury or a knock; blood vessels underneath the skin break or burst and blood leaks out under the skin. This causes the purplish ...

Most bruises happen when small blood vessels, called capillaries, near the surface of the skin are broken because of the impact of an injury — for example, bumping into a hard surface.