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It couldn’t be clearer to you that Chronic Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS) is more than lingering soreness after an injury. It’s a life-changing condition.
The same condition is also called Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy (RSD). If a doctor said you have RSD, all the same symptoms and hardships apply.
With CRPS or RSD, even a small injury, surgery, or illness can cause your nervous system to overreact, leading to severe burning sensations and constant pain that spreads, intensifies, and disrupts your ability to function.
Social Security Disability benefits could provide financial relief while you deal with this. But you must be unable to work. How do you make it clear to Social Security that your pain condition is debilitating enough that you can’t work?
Benefits are a lifeline giving you monthly income and access to Medicare so you can take care of your health and focus on your well-being. Proving your case to Social Security is another story.
You can find support from the New York disability lawyers at Lachman & Gorton Law Office. For CRPS/RSD, we have special strategies we use to help you get benefits .
We’ve helped people in Binghamton, Elmira, Rochester and across Upstate New York for decades, including people with CRPS, RSD and other chronic pain conditions that are challenging to explain to Social Security.
We know how hard it is to live with CRPS, and we know how to approach a disability claim for it. You pay no attorney fee until you win.
CRPS isn’t on Social Security’s official “blue book” list of impairments, but you can still qualify for disability benefits for CRPS if your symptoms are severe enough to keep you from working for at least a year—and you can prove it.
Social Security does provide some guidance for CRPS or RSD symptoms you can document for your claim, such as:
At Lachman & Gorton, our Social Security Disability attorneys know what local disability judges look for when you go to hearings to get your case approved—and how to clearly document CRPS symptoms so they understand the real impact on your ability to work.
We can help you apply for disability benefits and appeal a denial of benefits.
Start with a free disability claim consultation.
The challenge with getting disability benefits for RSD or CRPS is that your symptoms may flare up and fade. But for a disability benefits claim, you must show that your inability to work is constant.
You need two major types of documentation:
Your disability attorney helps with both. First off, your attorney helps you get these items from the health care professionals you see:
With the basic documentation in hand, you need something more legalistic and complicated: a written explanation from your doctor of how the ups and downs of your condition make it impossible for you to work consistently.
The Lachman & Gorton disability lawyers secure the right kind of statement by designing a questionnaire tailored to your case for your medical provider to fill out.
The questionnaire encourages your provider to describe your CRPS in a way that Social Security officials and disability judges recognize. It puts into sharp focus why your pain episodes, even though they come and go, make it impossible to hold down a job all the time.
There’s a big gap between the health care system where you go for treatment and the Social Security Disability system where you go for financial assistance when you can’t work.
A skilled disability lawyer bridges that gap for you with knowledge of both your medical issues and Social Security law.
Your lawyer also makes the process easier on you, and possibly even improves your chances of winning benefits in the end.
Partly because CRPS is complex and difficult to get others to understand, Social Security denies many valid claims for disability benefits.
But Lachman & Gorton has helped thousands of people across Upstate New York present compelling cases for difficult conditions.
Let us help you win the financial relief you need and deserve.