Asked on Wednesday if there was a physical cause for his struggles, Brown said, "I definitely think it's got something to do with it".
One patient stated: "I have pain so there must be a physical cause" (patient 2).
It's their belief that there is a physical cause [PGP18] Respondents expressed various and occasionally contradictory opinions about the impact of gender, intelligence, class and ethnicity on the likelihood of patients' holding fixed beliefs in physical causation of MUS.
The couple may also undergo testing to determine if there is a physical cause for the infertility.
Undergoing a complete physical by a medical professional who is familiar with the physical causes for anxiety will make it possible to determine if there is a physical cause that can be treated and gradually reduce the anxiety as the healing progresses.
If people were introduced to the fact that there is a physical cause…I think if things are explained in a simple and logical manner it'll become more approachable, and understandable, and acceptable.
P14, 40 49yo Pakistani Muslim woman, secondary education, interview If people were introduced to the fact that there is a physical cause…I think if things are explained in a simple and logical manner it'll become more approachable, and understandable, and acceptable.
Patients who recovered or improved were younger, did not have a co-morbid psychiatric disorder, and did not believe that the illness was due to a physical cause.
Researchers at Vanderbilt University tracked 332 children with recurring stomachaches that could not be traced to a physical cause — so-called functional abdominal pain — comparing them as they reached young adulthood with 147 children who had never had such stomachaches.
In fact, there are several examples in which shear force has been considered to be a physical influence causing structural rearrangement in proteins.
