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Posted in Benefits, Chronic Pain, Claims, Health, Impairment, Injury, Procedure, SSA, SSI, Social Security Disability on Feb 26th, 2010
If you have a back injury which prevents you from working and is expected to be disabling for a period of 12 months or more, you may wish to file a claim for Social Security Disability. When you make an application for disability, the Social Security Administration will begin evaluating the claim. They will request […]
When determining whether an individual is disabled and unable to work, the Social Security Administration (SSA) must determine if the claimant has a medically determinable physical and/or mental impairment. Social Security Ruling (SSR 96-4p) defines what is and what is not a medically determinable physical and/or mental impairment. SSR 96-4p supplements the policy statements in […]
Posted in Chronic Pain, Injury on May 18th, 2008
Arch Surg. 2008 Mar;143(3):282-7;
Prevalence of pain in patients 1 year after major trauma.Rivara FP,
Mackenzie EJ, Jurkovich GJ, Nathens AB, Wang J, Scharfstein DO.
Departments of Pediatrics and Epidemiology, Harborview Injury Prevention
and Research Center, University of Washington School of Medicine, Box
359960, 325 Ninth Ave, Seattle, WA 98104, USA. fpr@u.washington.edu
OBJECTIVES: To describe the prevalence of pain in a […]
By Will Dunham Tue Mar 18, 2:44 AM ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A surprising number of people — more than 60 percent — still suffer significant pain a year after a traumatic injury in a car crash or other cause, showing the need for better pain treatment, researchers said. In a study published on Monday […]
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