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Disc Herniation and Receiving Social Security Disability

Friday, March 26th, 2010
Stages of Spinal Disc Herniation
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The term “disc herniation” refers to a medical condition that is known by several other names. Disc herniation is also called bulging disc, compressed disc, herniated intervertebral disc, herniated nucleus pulposus, prolapsed disc, ruptured disc and slipped disc.  No matter what name you call it, disc herniation is a medical condition that can cause you a great deal of pain.

Your spine or backbone is made up of 26 bones that are called vertebrae. In between these vertebrae are soft discs that are filled with a jelly-like substance. These discs cushion and keep your vertebrae in place.

Disc herniation is when one of these discs ruptures or slips out of place. If the disc that moves out of place presses against a nerve, it can cause back pain or sciatica.

There are several signs and symptoms that you may experience with disc herniation. Some of these effects include:

  • Numbness or tingling
  • Back pain that spreads to your legs and buttocks when the disc herniation is in your lower back
  • Weakness or muscle spasms
  • Neck pain that spreads to your upper arms and shoulders when the disc herniation is in your upper back
  • Bladder or bowel problems
  • Abdominal sensations that are experienced like electric shock pain.

Disc herniation can be caused by an accident, injury or a fall. Disc herniation may happen gradually over time as the result of any activity that causes repetitive straining of your spine. Aging causes your discs to become rigid. When your discs lose their elasticity, they can rupture. Many people who have disc herniation already have spinal stenosis, which may contribute to a disc herniation.

The effects caused by disc herniation can leave you incapacitated. Serious complications can result from this condition.

Disc herniation and resulting complications may be keeping you or a loved one from working. This condition may be the cause of you or your loved one’s disability.

If this is the case, do you or your loved one need help? Do you need financial help?

Who can you turn to for the financial help that you need? Where will it come from? Who will be able to help you?

Have you or your loved one applied for Social Security disability benefits or disability benefits from the Social Security Administration because of the disability caused by disc herniation and resulting complications? Were you or your loved one denied?

If you or your loved one is thinking about appealing the denial by the Social Security Administration, here is something that you need to think about. People who are represented by a disability attorney like the one you will find at socialsecurityhome.com are approved more often than those people who do not have a lawyer.

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Spinal Stenosis and Receiving Social Security Disability

Tuesday, September 1st, 2009

Spinal stenosis is a narrowing of one or more areas in your spine. This usually happens in your upper or lower back. This narrowing can put pressure on your spinal cord or on the nerves that branch out from the compressed areas.

Spinal stenosis is classified as either primary or acquired. Primary spinal stenosis is something you are born with. Acquired spinal stenosis is something that develops because of degenerative changes in your spine that take place because of aging.

Illustration of a human back from Gray's Anatomy.
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The primary cause of the degeneration of your spine is osteoarthritis. There are also some other things that can cause spinal stenosis. Some of these are:

  • Spinal tumors
  • Herniated disc
  • Ligament changes
  • Injury
  • Achondroplasia
  • Paget’s disease of bone.

This can lead to complications or problems, depending on which nerves are affected.  Spinal stenosis can cause cramping, pain or numbness in your arms, shoulders, legs, back or neck; problems with bowel or bladder function and a loss of sensation in your extremities. These are things that can cause disability and keep you from working.

The narrowing of your spine does not always cause problems. When the spinal stenosis affects your spinal cord or spinal nerves, you will probably begin to have signs and symptoms. The effects caused by spinal stenosis usually start mildly and grow worse with time. Some of these effects include:

  • Radiating hip and back pain,
  • Pain or cramping in your legs
  • Pain in your shoulders and neck
  • Loss of bladder or bowel function
  • Loss of balance.

Spinal stenosis may have become so serious a problem for you or a loved one that the effects it is causing are making it hard for you to get and hold a job. Spinal stenosis may be the cause of you or your loved one’s disability.

If this is you or your loved one’s situation, do you need assistance? Do you need financial help?

Have you or your loved one applied for that financial assistance from the Social Security Administration by applying for Social Security disability benefits or disability benefits because of the disability caused by spinal stenosis? Were you or your loved one denied?

You or your loved one may be thinking about appealing the denial by the Social Security Administration. If this is what you decide to do, here is something that you need to keep in mind.

You or your loved one will need an established disability lawyer like the one you will find at socialsecurityhome.com to advise and counsel you in what can be a long and trying process. The reason for this being true is because people who are represented by an experienced disability attorney are approved more often than those people who are not represented by a lawyer.

Do not put this off. Do not wait. This may affect you or your loved one for the rest of your life. Contact the good disability attorney at socialsecurityhome.com, today.

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