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Nerve Illness Mononeuropathy and Getting Social Security

Thursday, December 22nd, 2011

Neuropathy is a medical term that is used to refer to any type of injury, damage, or illness that involves your nerves or nerve cells. Neuropathy involves your peripheral nervous system and/or your central nervous system.

Your central nervous system is made up of the nerves in your brain and spinal cord. Your peripheral nervous system is composed of all of your nerves that are not located in your brain and spinal cord. Your peripheral nervous system is the expansive communications network that carries information from your spinal cord and brain to all of the rest of your body.

Peripheral neuropathy is used to refer to any type of injury or illness that affects your peripheral nervous system. Peripheral neuropathy distorts and sometimes interrupts messages going from your brain to the remainder of your body like static that occurs on a telephone line.

Peripheral neuropathy is a disorder that more than 20 million people are afflicted with in the United States. One of the reasons for this is due to the fact that there are over 100 types of peripheral neuropathy.

Mononeuropathy is one of the kinds of peripheral neuropathy. The reason why this is true is because mononeuropathy results in damage to nerves that are not a part of your central nervous system. Mononeuropathy is damage that takes place to a single nerve or nerve group.

Mononeuropathy brings about the loss of sensation, movement or other function of that nerve or nerve group. Mononeuropathy damage may develop in any area or part of your body. If you are afflicted with mononeuropathy, you may be able to meet the requirements for obtaining social security disability benefits such as SSDI or SSI. What you really ought to do is to talk to one of the social security attorneys at socialsecurityhome.com. The social security attorneys at socialsecurityhome.com will work hard to get you the disability benefits that you are entitled to.

There are several different types of mononeuropathy. Some of these include:

  • Radial nerve dysfunction
  • Carpal tunnel syndrome
  • Sciatic nerve dysfunction
  • Common peroneal nerve dysfunction
  • Ulnar nerve dysfunction
  • Axillary nerve dysfunction
  • Femoral nerve dysfunction
  • Cranial mononeuropathy III; compression type
  • Cranial mononeuropathy VI
  • Cranial mononeuropathy VII
  • Cranial mononeuropathy; diabetic type

Most of the time, mononeuropathy occurs as the result of an injury. However, systemic (body-wide) conditions may also cause this disorder.

Another cause of mononeuropathy is pressure that occurs over a long period of time on one of your nerves as a result of an injury or swelling. When this happens, your myelin sheath that covers your nerve or part of the nerve cell (the axon) may become damaged. Signals from your nerve are then stopped or slowed from traveling through it by this damage.

The signs and symptoms that you experience with mononeuropathy are determined by which one of your nerves is affected by the disorder. Some of the possible signs and symptoms that you may have are:

  • Weakness
  • Abnormal sensations
  • Pain, tingling or burning
  • Paralysis
  • The loss of sensation
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Diabetic Proximal Neuropathy and Filing Social Security Disability

Thursday, December 1st, 2011

The nervous system of your body is made up of two parts. They are your central nervous system and your peripheral nervous system.

Your central nervous system is composed of all of the nerves that are in your brain and spinal cord. Your peripheral nervous system includes all of the rest of your nerves that are not found in your spinal cord and brain. Your peripheral nervous system is the vast communications network that takes information from your brain and spinal cord to all of the rest of your body.

Any ailment or injury that affects your nerves or nerves cells is called a neuropathy. Neuropathy may affect either your peripheral nervous system or your central nervous system.

Peripheral neuropathy is any sort of ailment or injury that has to do with your peripheral nervous system. Peripheral neuropathy causes distortion and may interrupt the messages from your brain to the remainder of your body in a way that is similar to static on a telephone line.

There are over 100 kinds of peripheral neuropathy. It is a condition that more than 20 million people in the United States are suffering from.

Diabetes is another disorder that affects your nerves. The nerves that permit you to feel sensations such as pain may be hurt as a result of diabetes. When this takes place, it is referred to as diabetic neuropathy.

Diabetic proximal neuropathy is one of the types of diabetic neuropathy. Diabetic proximal neuropathy involves the nerves that are closer to your shoulders or hips. It involves your legs in most instances, but diabetic proximal neuropathy may also affect the nerves in your abdomen and arms.

Diabetic proximal neuropathy is usually brought on by long periods of exposure to high blood sugar levels. High blood sugar levels may lead to damage to delicate nerve fibers. Although diabetic proximal neuropathy may take place in anyone with diabetes, it develops most of the time in people who are afflicted with type 2 diabetes and in older adults.

In most cases, the signs and symptoms of diabetic proximal neuropathy occur on one side of your body. However, it is possible that they may also spread to the other side of your body. Some signs and symptoms that you may experience are:

Ÿ  Thigh muscles that eventually become weak and atrophied (waste away)

Ÿ  Sudden, severe pain that develops in your thigh and buttock or hips

Ÿ  Swelling in your abdomen if it is affected by the disorder

Ÿ  Difficulty in getting up from a seated position

Ÿ  Weight loss that is not intentional.

If you are having to deal with diabetic proximal neuropathy, this may enable you to receive social security disability benefits such as SSDI or SSI. A good decision is to go to socialsecurityhome.com and get the advice of one of the social security attorneys to see what medical problems possibly allow you to receive benefits. The social security attorneys at socialsecurityhome.com know what the Social Security Administration requires in order for you to be able to get the disability benefits that you deserve.

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MS and Receiving Social Security Disability Benefits

Monday, August 15th, 2011
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MS (multiple sclerosis) is a chronic, potentially disabling disease of your central nervous system. Your central nervous system is composed of your spinal cord and brain.

Researchers believe that MS is an autoimmune disease. Autoimmune diseases are those in which your immune system for some unknown reason attacks the cells and tissues of your own body as if they were something foreign that is invading your body

In the case of MS, your autoimmune system mistakenly sends white blood cells and antibodies to attack the proteins in your myelin sheath. Your myelin sheath is a fatty substance that insulates nerve fibers in your spinal cord and brain. This results in inflammation and injury to your myelin sheath and ultimately to your nerves that your myelin sheath surrounds. This, in turn, may cause multiple areas of sclerosis (scarring). Eventually, this damage can slow or block your nerve signals that control your vision, muscle coordination, strength and sensation.

An estimated 300,000 people have MS in the United States and probably more than 1 million people around the world. Women are twice as likely as men to develop MS. Most people experience their first signs and symptoms between the ages of 20 and 40.

As stated earlier, MS is thought to be an autoimmune disease. Your autoimmune system mistakenly destroys the cells that make your myelin sheath. However, researchers do not know why your body’s immune system reacts like this.

 

Genetic factors may play a role in causing MS. Researchers also believe that a virus like a cold or flu may trigger episodes of your MS.

MS varies in severity and is unpredictable. MS can range anywhere from being relatively benign and mild, to a little disabling, to devastating with permanent disability.

The signs and symptoms that are produced by MS vary widely. They depend on where the nerve fibers are that are affected by the disease. Some of the signs and symptoms that you may experience are:

 

  • Dizziness
  • Blurring of your vision or double vision
  • Fatigue
  • Pain or tingling in parts of your body
  • Partial or complete loss of vision
  • Electric-shock sensations that happen when you make certain head movements
  • Numbness or weakness in one or more of your limbs
  • An unsteady gait in your walking
  • Tremor or lack of coordination.

 

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Idiopathic Neuropathy and Receiving Social Security Disability

Friday, August 13th, 2010
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Neuropathy is a medical term that refers to diseases or malfunctions that affect your peripheral nervous system. The term is usually used to mean the same thing as peripheral neuropathy.

Your peripheral nervous system is a huge communications network that transfers information from your brain and spinal cord (your central nervous system) to all the other areas of your body. It also sends sensory information back to your spinal cord and brain. These are messages like your foot is burned or your hand is cold.

Peripheral neuropathy affects over 20 million people in the United States. Almost 60% of all people with diabetes have this disorder.

Idiopathic neuropathy affects 2 million of the 20 million people with peripheral neuropathy. It usually affects middle-aged and elderly people.

There are more than 100 kinds of peripheral neuropathy that have been recognized. Each of these types has its own characteristic set of signs, pattern of development and prognosis.

Idiopathic neuropathy is one of these kinds of peripheral neuropathy. It is referred to as “idiopathic” because the causes of it have not yet been identified and determined.

Idiopathic neuropathy affects your peripheral nerves. It interferes and affects the communication between your peripheral nervous system and your central nervous system.

Idiopathic neuropathy is considered to be a primary disease. This means it does not result from another or underlying condition.

As mentioned earlier, this disease is called “idiopathic” neuropathy because the causes of it have not yet been identified and determined. There are many cases where the cause or causes of peripheral neuropathy are not known. So, they are referred to as idiopathic neuropathy.

There are several different signs and symptoms that you may experience with idiopathic neuropathy. Some of these are:

  • Unsteadiness while standing or walking
  • Weakness in your muscles
  • Weakness in the muscles around your ankles
  • A feeling of pain, tingling and numbness
  • A feeling of faintness
  • Muscle cramps.

There can be other signs and symptoms depending on which of your nerves are affected. You may also lose the sense of feeling in your toes.

You or a loved one may have been diagnosed with idiopathic neuropathy. This disease and/or complications resulting from or other conditions along with it may be the reason why you or your loved one is disabled and unable to work.

You or your loved one may be thinking about applying for Social Security disability benefits or disability benefits from the Social Security Administration because of idiopathic neuropathy and/or complications resulting from or other conditions along with it? You or your loved one may have already applied and been denied by the Social Security Administration?

If you decide to appeal the denial by the Social Security Administration, consider this. People who are represented by a disability lawyer like the one you find at Social Security Home are approved more often than those who are not represented by an attorney.

Please do not wait. Contact us today to make sure you are getting the benefits you need.

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Ataxia and Receiving Social Security Disability Benefits

Monday, July 12th, 2010

The word “ataxia”, comes from a Greek word, “a taxis” that means incoordination or without order. Ataxia means a lack of coordination or without coordination.

Ataxia can refer to a sign or symptom of incoordination that is associated with injuries, infections, other diseases or degenerative changes in your central nervous system. Ataxia also refers to a group of specific degenerative diseases of your nervous system. These are called sporadic and hereditary ataxias.

The reason ataxia causes problems with your coordination is because if affects the parts of your nervous system that controls balance and movement. Ataxia can affect your hands, fingers, arms, body, legs, eye and speech movements.

When nerve cells in your cerebellum degenerate, are damaged or lost, you lose coordination or have less muscle control. Infection, injuries, diseases and degenerative changes in your central nervous system can cause this to happen, which results in some type of ataxia. Some of the things that can result in ataxia are:

  • Chickenpox
  • Paraneoplastic syndromes
  • Toxic reactions
  • Trauma to your head
  • Cerebral palsy (link to page, “Cerebral Palsy and Disability”)
  • Multiple sclerosis (MS) (link to page, “Multiple Sclerosis and Disability”)
  • Transient ischemic attack (TIA)
  • Tumor
  • Stroke
  • Heredity or genetics.

The signs and symptoms that you experience will depend on the type of ataxia that you have and whether it is a form of the disease or a sign or symptom of an underlying condition. Poor coordination and balance are usually the first indications of ataxia. Other signs and symptoms that you may experience, depending on the type and reason for your ataxia are:

  • A tendency to stumble and an unsteady walk
  • Change or slurring of your speech
  • Problems with fine-motor skills like writing, buttoning a shirt or eating
  • Difficulty swallowing
  • Slow eye movements
  • Loss of balance
  • Loss of muscle coordination in your leg, arm or hand
  • Walking with your feet further apart to compensate for problems with balance.

Onset of these signs and symptoms will vary due to the type of ataxia that you have. Often, they begin in childhood, but indications can begin in adulthood in your 20s or 30s. They can even begin in your 60s.

You or a loved one may some form of ataxia. This may be why you are disabled and unable to work.

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 ataxia and/or complications resulting from or other conditions causing ataxia? Were you or your loved one denied?

If you or your loved one appeals the denial by the Social Security Administration, consider this. People who are represented by a disability attorney like the one you will find here are approved more often than people who do not have a lawyer.

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