During the trip to the hospital, IV access is established. Additional assessment reveals that her pain began immediately after the fall, is a 9 on a 1â10 scale and is described as a constant, very sharp pain diffused across her lower abdomen. Nothing alleviates the pain.
0. 0. Psychosomatic means mind (psyche) and body (soma). A psychosomatic disorder is a disease which involves both mind and body. Some physical diseases are thought to be particularly prone to be made worse by mental factors such as stress and anxiety.o an extent, most diseases are psychosomatic-involving both mind and body. 1  There is a mental aspect to every physical disease. 2  How we react to and cope with disease varies greatly from person to person.
Even though the concept was introduced by Heinroth in 1818, modern psychosomatic medicine developed in the first half of the past century. It resulted from the confluence of two concepts having an ancient tradition in Western thinking and medicine: psychogenesis of disease and holism.