Minnesota Disability Benefits for Back Pain


Minnesota Disability Benefits for Back Pain

Disability for Back Pain Lawyer

Disability benefits for back pain are available from the Social Security Administration if you are unable to work. Disability for back pain can arise from multiple musculoskeletal disorders. Most back pain in this area involves arthritis and other age-related degenerative disorders.

Many people also develop back pain from traumatic injuries such as car accidents and work accidents. There are several important things to consider if you are applying or appealing a denial for disability benefits for back pain.

Tips for Winning Back Pain Disability Benefits

1. Acceptable Documentation: The SSA only considers medically acceptable diagnosis and documentation from medical doctors and osteopaths (M.D.’s and D.O.’s). Records and reports from physical therapists, chiropractors, holistic healers, and nurses are considered in the SSA evaluation but are not enough to establish a claimant’s disability for back pain without proper medical documentation.

2. Medical Imaging: Medically acceptable tests are extremely helpful in establishing your disability. Findings on tests such as MRI’s and x-rays are considered objective signs (evidence) of abnormalities causing your back pain.

Examples of imaging that the SSA considers acceptable include:

• bone scans
• x-rays
• magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
• computerized axial tomography (CAT scan)
• myelography

3. Loss of Function Evidence: This is probably the most important factor Social Security uses to determine your disability benefits for back pain. Regardless of the cause of your back pain impairment, functional loss refers to an inability to walk effectively on a sustained basis, or inability to perform fine and gross movements effectively on a sustained basis. The SSA is more concerned with how your back pain affects and limits your ability to work rather than your particular back disorder.

Detailed information about your functional limitations is very helpful in documenting your disability for back pain. This is an area that many claimants neglect and leads to denials for their case. Claimants should complete what are referred to as activities of daily living (ADL) forms.

Examples of these forms are SSA-3368 Disability Report and SSA-3369 Work History Report. The SSA will also consider letters and reports from family, friends and past co-workers that can verify limitations due to back pain.

4. Medication Side-Effects: This is another overlooked factor that can provide additional evidence of your disability for back pain. Many people who suffer from chronic back pain have to take medication to manage their pain. Side-effects of pain medication can interfere with a claimant’s daily activities. Examples of medication side-effects include headaches, nausea, depression, fatigue and balance problems. Documentation of these side-effects are important because they it provides additional evidence of your inability to work.

Fields Law back pain disability attorneys will assist you in getting the medical tests you need to document your back pain disability. If you are unable to work because of chronic back pain we can help you apply for social security benefits. If you have been denied disability benefits we can appeal your case.

We offer a Free case review. Our Minnesota disability attorneys understand how frustrating it is to have chronic back pain and be denied disability benefits when you are unable to work. There are never any fees unless we win your disability case.

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