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A Brachial Plexus Injury and Receiving Social Security Disability

Monday, April 18th, 2011
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Your brachial plexus is a network of nerves that originate near your shoulder and neck. These nerves that start at your spinal cord in your neck control your elbow, wrist, hand and shoulder.

Your nerves can be compared to an electrical cable that is wrapped in insulation. They are the electrical wiring system that transmits messages from your brain to the rest of your body.

Sensory nerves take messages to your brain from different areas of your body that have to do with pressure, temperature and pain. Motor nerves transport messages from your brain to your muscles to enable your body to move. Your brachial plexus has both sensory and motor nerves.

Your brachial plexus is very fragile and can be injured by stretching, cutting or pressure. If the injury is bad enough, these nerves can actually tear out of their roots in your neck.

A brachial plexus injury stops the messages that are going to and from your brain. The result is that your hand, arm and shoulder do not work like they should. You also have a loss of feeling in the area that is being affected by the injured nerve.

There are several different ways in which a brachial plexus injury can occur. These injuries can result from a trauma like knife or bullet wounds, accidents involving a car, boat or motorcycle and animal bites. They can happen during contact sports like hockey, wrestling or football. A brachial plexus injury can also take place during birth when there is extended labor or breech.

The signs and symptoms that you experience with a brachial plexus injury can be widely different. This depends on the location and severity of your injury. Signs and symptoms that may be an indication of a brachial plexus injury include:

§  Pain that is severe

§  Having the ability to use your fingers but having little or no control of your elbow and shoulder muscles

§  Weakness and numbness in your arm

§  A total lack of feeling and movement in your arm

§  A feeling that is like a burning sensation or shock that goes shooting down your arm

§  Having the ability to use your arm but not your fingers.

You or a loved one may have a brachial plexus injury. This injury and/or complications resulting from or other conditions along with it may be why you are disabled and need help.

You or your loved one may be considering applying for Social Security disability benefits or disability benefits from the Social Security Administration. You may have already done this and been denied.

If you or your loved one intends to appeal the denial by the Social Security Administration, remember this important fact. People who are represented by a disability attorney like the one you will find at disabilitycasereview.com are approved more often than people who do not have a disability lawyer.

Please do not wait. Contact the disability attorney at disabilitycasereview.com, today.

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Klumpke’s Paralysis and Receiving Social Security Disability

Monday, April 4th, 2011
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There is a network of nerves that start near your shoulder and neck. This is your brachial plexus. These nerves begin in your neck at your spinal cord. They control your hand, wrist, elbow and shoulder.

Your nerves are similar to an electrical cable that is wrapped in insulation. Your nerves are the electrical wiring system that delivers messages from your brain to every other area of your body.

Messages from different areas of your body that have to do with pain, pressure, and temperature are carried to your brain by your sensory nerves. Messages from your brain to your muscles that enable your body to move are sent by your motor nerves. Sensory and motor nerves are located in your brachial plexus.

Your brachial plexus can be hurt by pressure, stretching or cutting. It is an extremely fragile network of nerves. The nerves in your brachial plexus can actually be torn out of their roots in your neck if the injury that you suffer is severe enough.

A brachial plexus injury prevents messages from traveling to and from your brain. Because of this, your shoulder, hand and arm do not work like they should. In the area that is being affected by the injured nerve, you also experience numbness or a loss of feeling.

Klumpke’s paralysis is a form of paralysis that affects the lower roots of your brachial plexus. It involves the muscles of your forearm and hand. Klumpke’s paralysis primarily affects the intrinsic muscles of your hand and the flexors of your fingers and wrist. Your forearm pronators and wrist flexors may also be involved, as well as the dilators of your iris and elevators of your eyelid.

Fortunately, Klumpke’s palsy is a rare disease. It affects less than 200,000 people in the United States.

Klumpke’s paralysis is usually caused by traction on your abducted arm. This usually takes place by catching a branch as you are falling from a tree.

There are some signs and symptoms that may be an indication of Klumpke’s palsy. Some of these are:

  • Paralysis of intrinsic hand muscles
  • Ulnar nerve distribution numbness
  • Pain
  • Hand weakness
  • Disturbed vision.

You or a loved one may have been afflicted with Klumpke’s paralysis. Klumpke’s paralysis and/or complications that have resulted from it or other conditions that you have besides this paralysis may have brought about the disability of you or your loved one and be what is keeping you from working.

You may need help if this is the case. You may need financial assistance.

You or your loved one may have decided to apply for the financial help that you need from the Social Security Administration by applying for Social Security disability benefits or disability benefits because of the disability that has been brought about by Klumpke’s paralysis and/or complications that have been caused by it or other conditions that you have besides this paralysis. You may have already applied and your request was denied by the Social Security Administration.

If you or your loved one intends to reapply or appeal the denial, there is an important fact that you really need to keep in mind. The fact of the matter is that people who have a disability attorney standing with them like the one you will find at disabilitycasereview.com are approved more often than people who are not represented by a disability lawyer.

Please do not hesitate. This is something that may affect you or your loved one for the rest of your life. Contact the disability attorney at disabilitycasereview.com, today.

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Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and Receiving Social Security Disability

Tuesday, November 23rd, 2010
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Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is sometimes called Lou Gehrig’s disease. Lou Gehrig was a Hall of Fame baseball player for the New York Yankees, who died of this disease in 1941.

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is a rapidly progressive, fatal neurological disease that attacks the neurons (nerve cells) that control voluntary muscles. The disease belongs to a group of illnesses known as motor neuron diseases. These diseases are evidenced by the gradual degeneration and death of motor neurons.

Motor neurons are nerve cells that are located in your brain, brainstem and spinal cord. They act as vital communication links and controlling units between the voluntary muscles of your body and your nervous system. Messages from motor neurons in your brain are transmitted to motor neurons in your spinal cord. From there the messages are sent to particular muscles.

With amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, the motor neurons in your brain and spinal cord degenerate or die. They stop sending messages to your muscles. No longer able to function, your muscles gradually weaken, waste away and twitch. In time, the ability of your brain to start and control voluntary movement is lost.

Somewhere around 20,000 people in the United States have amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Around 5,000 people are diagnosed with ALS each year in America. Men have this disease more often than women. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis usually happens between the ages of 40 and 60, but those older and younger can get the disease.

The first affects of ALS on you are subtle. Some of these are:

§  Cramping, stiffness or twitching of your muscles

§  Nasal or slurred speech

§  Muscle weakness affecting an arm or a leg

§  Difficulty swallowing or chewing.

The parts of your body that are affected by early signs and symptoms depend on which muscles in your body are damaged first. The first symptoms you may notice involve your leg, hand or arm, or speech problems. Regardless of what part of your body is affected first, muscle weakness and atrophy spread to other parts of your body as the disease progresses.

Eventually, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis paralyzes the muscles that are needed to breathe. Most people die from respiratory failure. This usually happens within three to five years after the signs and symptoms begin. However, around 10% of people with ALS live for 10 years or more.

Has amyotrophic lateral sclerosis reached a point where you are unable to work? Is ALS the cause of your disability?

Have you applied for Social Security disability benefits or disability benefits from the Social Security Administration and been denied? If you appeal the denial, keep this in mind.

You will need a proven disability lawyer like the one at Social Security Home to represent you in this process. This is true because people who have a trusted disability attorney are approved more often than those people who do not have a lawyer.

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