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If Crohn’s disease disability is preventing you from working, your claim for long term disability benefits may have already been met with denial and opposition. This condition can be extremely disabling. Generally, the disease inflames your gastrointestinal tract’s lining, causing paralyzing pain, discomfort and hardship. You may have already had one or more surgeries in which segments of intestine were removed in efforts to alleviate the symptoms. Crohn’s can deteriorate further by spreading to the diseased bowel tissue’s deeper layers. Life-threatening complications can ensue.

Why Insurance Companies Deny Crohn’s Disease Disability Claims

It is common for LTD insurance claim reviewers to lack understanding of Crohn’s disease. Although a visible and genuinely disabling condition, Crohn’s disease is typically dismissed by insurance providers as merely a discomfort and inconvenience.

Complex regional pain syndrome is a disabling condition that causes widespread pain in the body. This is a disability that is hard to quantify and document. Pain is something that is difficult measure, and it is subjective. Each person has a different tolerance for pain. What is severe to one person, may not be problematic to someone else. Long-term disability insurance companies often use this to deny claims for complex regions pain syndrome.

If your long-term disability claim has been denied, call us. We will take on the insurance company and get you the benefits you deserve.

What is CRPS?

Chronic Pain Syndrome disability claims can have various proof issues. This is true for private long-term disability (LTD) insurance or group insurance plans. Disability examiners need objective evidence of how your condition keeps you from being able to work.

With a strong helping hand, you can get the benefits you deserve. Ask a disability lawyer at our firm about your chronic pain disability claim.

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How to Prove a Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Disability Case to Get LTD Insurance Benefits

Are you applying for long term disability insurance benefits for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome? Here’s important Information to help you understand and prove chronic fatigue syndrome to the insurance company.

Chronic fatigue syndrome, or CFS, is one of five conditions that are commonly labeled as “subjective disorders.” What does this mean? It means that they can’t be proven through objective medical testing.

Cerebral Atrophy Disability is the gradual, progressive loss of brain cells. Atrophy is a trait that is typical of certain diseases that affect the brain. “Atrophy” means the wasting away, or the decrease in mass, of a part of the body. When brain tissue atrophies, or shrinks, there is loss of neurons and connections between the neurons. Cerebral atrophy can occur throughout the entire brain or in one select region of the brain.

The progressive wasting away of brain cells generally leads to the loss of neurological function. Commonly associated with dementia and Alzheimer’s, cerebral atrophy can be caused by many medical conditions that act to destroy brain tissue.

While the condition itself may not be a recognized “impairment” in some medical listings, many of the causes of cerebral atrophy – such as Lou Gehrig’s disease (ALS), Parkinson’s and Huntington’s disease – are.

Has your claim for carpal tunnel syndrome disability been denied? Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (CTS) is a painful impairment of the wrist, hand and fingers. It is caused by pressure on the median nerve that passes through the narrow tunnel of ligaments and carpal bones. The median nerve receives sensations from the thumb and fingers and controls movement of the fingers and thumb.

Symptoms of CTS include intense sensations of tingling, radiating pain, weakness, numbness, or burning. Carpal tunnel syndrome can have serious effects on one’s ability to work and perform daily activities, even the simplest of tasks.

Any disorder exerting pressure on the median nerve in the wrist area can cause carpal tunnel syndrome. Common causes include trauma, thyroid disorders, arthritis, and diabetes, as well as repetitive hand, wrist and finger flexing motions over long period.