Helping People With Disabilities Nationwide
When you're living with chronic liver disease, the disease is hard enough. The last thing you want to have to balance is work with your medical schedule. You don't always feel well, and your health is a priority.The important thing to know is that you have to prove...
There is often a link with mental illness and other disabilities. For someone who has always had a disability, it may coincide with mental illness. For someone who suddenly finds him or herself with a disability, depression or anxiety may soon take hold as a result of...
Disabilities impact lives in many ways. For some, they're unable to see or hear the way they used to. Others may not be able to walk or stand for long periods of time. No matter what the disability is, there's no question that it has an impact. It's important for...
After you got into an accident, you noticed changes in yourself. You'd forget lengths of time completely. You'd forget words and have trouble speaking. You knew something was wrong, so you had tests performed. You finally got a diagnosis: post-traumatic epilepsy...
Isaiah Austin, a college basketball player, was expected to play in the National Basketball Association. But four days before the NBA draft, the 20-year-old player was diagnosed with Marfan syndrome, a serious medical impairment that can cause heart and other...
Angelina Jolie raised awareness of a type of gene testing for breast cancer last year when she had her breasts removed to reduce her risk of cancer. Jolie has a mutation in her BRCA 1 gene which dramatically increased her cancer risk. Her mother died of cancer at 56...
Fibromyalgia can cause a person to face several symptoms, including severe pain. Pain associated with this medical condition can be intense and unpredictable. It can sometimes affect a person's ability to be an everyday participant in the workforce. Fibromyalgia is...
Having to cope with diabetes is a daily reality for many individuals here in Minnesota. Diabetes can make controlling one's weight and blood sugar levels very difficult and can have a wide-ranging collection of physiological effects on a person. Diabetes and its...
As we have mentioned before on our Minneapolis Social Security disability law blog, multiple sclerosis is a serious and chronic condition that may cause some folks to become permanently disabled well before their retirement years.Symptoms of MS may include reduced...
Late last month, the Social Security Administration put into effect rules to help the SSA and administrative law judges evaluate Fibromyalgia for Social Security Disability purposes. It explains how the SSA "develop[s] evidence to establish that a person has a...
June is Scleroderma Awareness Month, a month when groups across the country raise awareness of this potentially debilitating disease, also called systemic sclerosis. It is also a good time to discuss applying for Social Security Disability (SSD) if you have...
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