DISABILITY AND ACOUSTIC NEUROMA - BENEFITS AND FILING

Acoustic neuroma is a type of turmor that is formed from myelin cells, known as schwann cells. Individuals who have acoustic neuroma will often have balance problems, vertigo, and unilateral sensorineural hearing loss/deafness. Approximately, 3000 cases of acoustic neuromas are diagnosed yearly in the United States. Acoustic neuroma most often affects individuals when they reach their fifties and sixties and typically affects both sexes equally. About 80% of individuals diagnosed with acoustic neuroma also experience high pitched ringing known as tinnitus. Treatment options for individuals with acoustic neuroma most often involves surgical procedures and radiation therapy. However, treatment options provide significant risks to the individual. For example, surgery may damage facial nerves or an individual's steadiness may never be 100% again. Radiation may also severely damage hearing in the affected ear.

Can you win social security disability or SSI disability benefits on the basis of Acoustic Neuroma?

Answer: The Social Security Administration's disability evaluation system does not focus on a claimant's diagnosis, but, rather, on the functional limitations a claimant has. In other words, the name of the condition is not the chief consideration. How the condition "affects and limits: the indiviual is the primary concern. So, yes, disability benefits can be won on the basis of nearly any condition provided that the condition is sufficiently limiting.

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