Anxiety Disorders: Examination

A comprehensive clinical examination is the basis for selecting further diagnostic steps:

• General physical examination – including blood pressure, pulse, body weight, height; furthermore:
  • Inspection (viewing).
    • Skin and mucous membranes [sweating, tremor].
  • Auscultation (listening) of the heart.
  • Palpation (palpation) of the abdomen (abdomen) (tenderness?, knocking pain?, coughing pain?, defensive tension?, hernial orifices?, kidney bearing knocking pain?)
• Psychiatric examination [due topossible sequelae:
  • Alcohol abuse
  • Depression]
• Health Check

Square brackets [ ] indicate possible pathological (pathological) physical findings.