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Rheumatoid Arthritis Can Be a Disabling Condition

It is estimated that over 46 million people are suffering from arthritis—and it is also a major cause of disability among adults. Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) is an inflammatory type of arthritis and often chronic in nature. RA is an autoimmune disease and involves destruction of body’s own healthy tissue by immune cells. It can affect [...]

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Rheumatoid Arthritis Symptoms Can Make Someone Disabled

A joint is a structure which allows the meeting of two bones and it allows for the movement of different body parts. Arthritis is defined as inflammation of a joint. Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) causes pain, stiffness, and swelling in the joints. RA may also affect other body organs in addition to just joints. Rheumatoid arthritis [...]

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Degenerative Disc Disease & Social Security Disability: What Are Your Chances?

One of the problems with degenerative disc disease and other diseases of the spine is that they are often dismissed by Social Security Disability, even though there is a section under the Listing of Impairments in the “blue book” related to disorders of the spine (which includes degenerative disc disease or DDD). According to Social [...]

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Disabling Condition: Musculoskeletal Problems

Disabling Musculoskeletal conditions include muscle and bone impairments causing loss of use, surgical correction of weight bearing joints with loss of use, spinal cord disorders, amputation with loss of use, unhealed fracture of leg/arm bones or loss of use and injury such as burn causing loss of use. Back problems (neck, and/or low back usually) [...]

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Low Back Pain is a Common Complaint & Disabling Impairment

This news confirms something that disabled Americans are well familiar with. Musculoskeletal injuries and impairments are one of the leading causes of disability. Within that category of impairments spinal pain is at the top of the list. Severe lumbar or low back pain is a very common reason why a person is no longer able [...]

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Chronic Pain: Medication and Treatment Options

Pain is defined by the International Association for the Study of Pain as an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage. Pain can be further classified into two basic categories: i) Acute pain: This type of pain is believed to be a consequence of a disease, injury or inflammation. This [...]

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Spinal Stenosis Symptoms and Treatment Options

Spinal stenosis refers to a condition characterized by narrowing of the spaces within the spine or the backbone. The spinal cord and the spinal nerves lie in the space within the spine and narrowing of this space leads to compression of the spinal cord or the spinal nerves. Numbness, pain, or weakening of the lower [...]

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A Little Back Pain is not enough to Win Social Security Disability

Because there is so much potential for abuse with people falsely claiming that they are so severely disabled that they cannot work, the Social Security administration has instituted stringent standards for approval for anyone applying for Social Security Disability. Back pain can certainly be a serious medical condition that can make it very difficult or [...]

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