Helping People With Disabilities Nationwide
One of the more frustrating aspects of disability law is meeting clients who clearly have severe medical issues that are keeping them from working, yet their physicians can't quite pinpoint a diagnosis.A common situation is a claimant suffering from severe pain....
Have you ever wondered just how many people have served in the armed forces? You may be able to find data indicating how large the military is at any given time, but you're interested in the bigger picture. You want to know how many people have served in the past, as...
While claimants are always relieved to receive Social Security Disability Insurance or Supplemental Security Income benefits, sometimes that's not quite the end of their cases.Most of the time, individuals who receive disability stay on it for life, or their benefit...
Experiencing visual hallucinations can be very disconcerting. You may have trouble understanding what is real and what is not. You may feel like something is very wrong and out of your control.But what does it mean? You need to see a medical professional to get an...
Although we know more now than ever before about Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, you could say that we are still very much in the early stages of understanding it. People only now really realize what is going on, how it can be a disability, and the type of assistance...
Per John Hopkins Medicine, cirrhosis of the liver occurs when scar tissue replaces healthy liver tissue. This process stops the liver from working normally and the damage to your liver builds up over time. Although many people might associate cirrhosis with alcohol...
Social Security disability hearings will almost always involve the judge and the claimant's attorney taking testimony from the claimant and from a Vocational Expert (there are other blog posts here that discuss the role of the Vocational Expert in detail). However,...
Schizophrenia is a severe mental disorder that drastically affects the victims' perceptions of the world around them and their ability to interact with others. It is usually disabling and it often strikes when victims are quite young, so it's important for parents and...
Earlier this month, The Tennessean ran an interesting piece detailing the newspaper's efforts to obtain information about the workload of Social Security medical consultants. These doctors, paid by Social Security, make the first decision about whether a claimant is...
One of the biggest problems with mental disorders in the United States is that a lot of people simply do not understand them. They don't have a lot of information about them, and that leads to false assumptions and the rise of dangerous myths.One such disorder is...
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