An important aspect of your claim for disability is how well your symptoms match up with the medical evidence. Your Albuquerque NM disability attorney will tell you that it is not enough to make claims about being in chronic pain and being unable to move, you also should be able to provide evidence. While symptoms are difficult to measure, it is possible to record the effects your disability has on your body and on your life and your Albuquerque NM disability lawyer will advise you that this is important to establish.
If you experience chronic pain, your might suffer from reduced joint motion, sensory deficits and muscle spasms. These are actual effects that your Albuquerque NM disability attorney will want to include in your claim because they give credibility to your statements that you are in pain. There are other types of information and questions which your Albuquerque NM disability attorney might advise you to include, such as:
• Descriptions of the location and character of your symptoms;
• Frequency and duration of your symptoms;
• How your symptoms are progressing? Are they getting better or worse?
• What effect it has had on your day-to-day life. Talk to your Albuquerque NM disability lawyer about ways you can effectively talk about this in your claim;
• A written chronology of your attempts to seek treatment and whether they have succeeded or failed. Your Albuquerque NM disability attorney can help you prepare this; and
• Acknowledgment of other impairments that could contribute to your symptoms.
Treatment History
It makes things much easier for you and your Albuquerque NM disability attorney if you can show a documented medical record of seeking medical treatment for your symptoms and following your prescribed treatment. Even if the treatment has been mostly futile, it lends support to your statements of intense pain if you have consistently sought professional help for it. Your Albuquerque NM disability lawyer will work with you to decide how best to describe your treatment history in your claim.
On the other hand, your claim will be more difficult for you and your Albuquerque NM disability attorney if you have demonstrated few or no attempts to seek treatment for your pain than if you have medical records that show you have been following recommended treatment.
If you have more questions about how the Social Security Administration will evaluate your claims, contact an Albuquerque NM disability attorney. Call Michele Baca Attorney at Law at 505-872-1142.
