How to Qualify for Social Security Disability Benefits With Peripheral Neuropathy
Peripheral neuropathy can be a seriously incapacitating condition involving the nerves which transmit information to and from the brain and spine and other parts of the body.
The affected nerves not only can produce pain, but can also cause deficiencies in joint and muscle regulation.
Peripheral neuropathy can profoundly affect your ability to feel and function, often drastically limiting your ability to sit, walk, stand, carry, grasp or handle objects.
Your doctors will perform, or order the performance, of physical and neurological exams, so as to be enabled to properly diagnose peripheral neuropathy, and will explore with you possible underlying causes for your condition.
The Social Security Administration will take into account both the condition and its underlying causes in determining your entitlement to disability benefits.
Under Social Security guidelines, Social Security will first determine if your peripheral neuropathy is characterized by tremors or other involuntary movements in at least two of your limbs, which seriously interfere with the sustained performance of fine and gross motor movements, or which cause so sustained a disturbance of gait or station as to prevent effective standing or walking.
The Social Security Administration bases its evaluations on how well you can manage work.. Thus, you will need supporting evidence that your neuropathy is so severe and so limits your activities as to prevent you from participating in significant work -related functions.
If you do not fully meet the “listings” criteria set forth in the regulations, you may still qualify for disability benefits if it is found that, based on your functional limitations, age, and education, you are unable to return to your past work and are incapable of transitioning to a different type of work.
If you feel the need for the guidance and support of an experienced of a New York disability lawyer, to find out what evidence is needed, and how to present it, please contact Herbert Forsmith for a free consultation.
