New Social Security Rules for Evaluating Medical Evidence in Disability Determinations: Part One
These were recently published in the Federal Register Vol. 82 No. 11/Wednesday January 18, 2017. I'm not going to address all the policy discussions, public comment and debate that went on around them. I am just going to try to boil down all the new and revised rules. Not everything here is new. For ease of read and understanding though I'm summarizing all the sections in the CFR affected whether entire sections were replaced with new verbage or just parts of some sections w
"Ohhh My Back!": Social Security Disability and Spine Disorders
In NEPA we have a lot of people who have held physically demanding jobs for many years. People sometimes refer to these jobs as "back breaking." Or sometimes people have been in serious or other car accidents and have some type of permanent damage. Back and Spine conditions, diseases, and pains can be anywhere on the spectrum from an occasional pain that once in a while limits someone's movements that an aspirin can take address to near constant pain that severely limits your
