Social Security Disability List of Impairments
Here is the Social Security Act’s List of Impairments used for determining whether a person is disabled. When you get there, look to your left and click on either Adult or Childhood to get the entire List:
1_00 Musculoskeletal System-Adult
If your condition does not meet a listed impairment, DO NOT GIVE UP!
There are other ways to be considered disabled under Social Security Administration guidelines. For example, if you are subject to excessive absences due to chronic pain, the side effects of medications, frequent visits to the doctor, nausea, weakness, lack of stamina, or some other reason related to your DIAGNOSED AND TREATED MEDICAL CONDITION, you may be determined disabled. Many people who have chronic pain or illness can perform work on a good day, but not on a bad day when symptoms are severe.
Another way that you may be considered disabled is if you are required by your DIAGNOSED AND TREATED MEDICAL CONDITION to take breaks more frequently or for longer periods of time than an employer would allow under normal circumstances. Your condition may require you to do things such as lie down, elevate your feet, apply ice to your back, take medications and wait a few minutes before returning to task, take frequent restroom breaks, sit or stand or walk around for awhile, or other corrective action other thanat scheduled times. If your DIAGNOSED AND TREATED MEDICAL CONDITION causes you to do any of these things, you may be determined to be disabled.
You may find yourself with more than one diagnosed illness or condition, which have the COMBINED EFFECT of keeping you from being able to maintain employment. For example, you may have chronic back pain, inflammatory arthritis in your fingers, poor eyesight, and diabetes all at the same time. Any one of these illnesses may not prevent you from working, but all of them together may cause you to be unable to work on a regular basis.
Seeking disability is a last resort to be taken only after medical treatment has failed to restore your health. But you should not feel embarrassed to make an application if you are unable to support yourself due to physical or mental illness.
Read MoreA Message From Bruce Perryman Attorney at Law
I have been a licensed and practicing attorney since 1989. As a solo lawyer I have handled a wide variety of legal matters for individuals in need of legal assistance. My primary areas are Social Security Disability, Child Custody, Divorce, Child Support, Probate, Wills, Criminal Defense and Personal Injury. Rather than develop a large staff of assistants and associates, I have kept my practice small and manageable so that you will have greater access to your attorney. Every case receives my personal attention. Although I am spread thin sometimes your case will never be out of mind. I do my best to give it the attention it deserves.
The American legal system is unique. It is based upon the concept of the equality of all citizens under the law, that we are all subject to the same law, that we are all entitled to our day in court, and that we cannot be deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law.
It is also an adversarial system. The other side is not seeking your best interests or even a fair result. They want a result that favors them. To make your rights meaningful, you have to take action, but you do not have to stand alone. You need a qualified experienced attorney to fight for you. I have been in the trenches since 1989 representing individuals against insurance companies and the government at all levels from Personal Injury and Social Security Disability Claims to Criminal prosecutions, as well as handling Divorce, Child Custody, Child Support, and Real Estate and Probate matters. My practice has been centered around the average citizen and the problems they face. I am not interested in titles, high rise offices or in building an impressive resume. My interest is in seeing to it that the legal system works the way it is supposed to work, for you, not as a social club where the outcome is predetermined by cliques and power brokers. To make the system work for you, you must have an advocate. Let me work for you.
Whoever you are…
Whatever was happened to you…
Whatever you may be accussed of…
YOU HAVE RIGHTS!
