Bleeding is often caused by minor injury - a bump or a slight twist of a joint. However, many hemorrhages, especially among severe hemophiliacs, happen for no apparent reason. This is even truer in joints that have bled often in the past. The more a joint has bled, the easier it bleeds again with no external cause. Even hemorrhages in the brain often have no apparent cause.
Brain hemorrhages are the leading cause of death from bleeding in hemophilia.
Therefore it is important to recognize the symptoms of a brain hemorrhage very quickly. Some of the following symptoms may occur in a person with bleeding in the brain. Any bleeding in a vital area is serious. A hemorrhage into a joint, if untreated , goes on for days. This is what happens.