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I know anxiety can cause muscle pain, but can it cause joint pain as well?

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Dr. Laurence Badgley answered

Specializes in General Practice

No: 24 yo asks if "anxiety" causes "joint pain". Anxiety originates in the mind & reflects psychologic effects of mental processes. Joint pain originates in soft tissue pain transducers within tendons & ligaments surrounding joints. Persons w. greater anxiety intensity might subjectively experience & report "greater" joint pain; whether they do is an unmeasurable & unprovable theoretical speculation.

Answered 2/24/2015

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