Disability Benefits for Neurological Problems
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Neurological problems are not limited to the brain. Neurological disorders can occur anywhere in the central nervous sytem, including the spinal cord, or the peripheral nervous system. Social Security approves disability benefits for serious cases of epilepsy, cerebral palsy, Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis, and ALS.
Disorders of the Central Nervous System
Those with multiple sclerosis who have a visual or mental impairment or significant fatigue and muscle weakness following activity should get disability benefits.
If you have serious problems communicating, walking, or using your hands due to a stroke, you are probably eligible for disability benefits.
Whether you'll get disability benefits for epilepsy depends on the types of seizures you have, their frequency, and how they disrupt your daily activities.
If you have advanced Parkinson's Disease that disrupts your walking, standing or using your hands effectively, you should be eligible for disability benefits.
Disability benefits are available to those who cerebral palsy causes problems with walking, talking, speaking, thinking, seeing, hearing, or behavior.
Social Security evaluates dystonia in a similar way to Parkinson's Disease.
If Huntington's has caused you significant problems walking or using your hands, or marked changes in your cognitive abilities, you should be able to get disability benefits.
Disability benefits are available for those with severe limitations caused by polio.
Once you are diagnosed with ALS, you automatically qualify for disability benefits.
If benign essential tremor severely affects your ability to use your hands, you should be able to get disability benefits.
Narcoleptics have won disability benefits based on narcolepsy's functional similarity to seizure disorder.
Getting Social Security Disability benefits based on chronic migraines is difficult but not impossible.
Neurological Disorders Related to the Spine (Part of the CNS)
Not all paraplegics and individuals with spinal cord injuries are automatically eligible for Social Security disability benefits.
Patients suffering limitations in functioning due to advanced Syringomyelia may be able to get disability benefits.
Those with long-lasting limitations from transverse myelitis may be able to qualify for Social Security disability benefits.
Disorders of the Peripheral Nervous System
If you have difficulty walking or using your hands due to tremors, partial paralysis, or involuntary movement, you should be able to get disability benefits.
If Charcot-Marie-Tooth syndrome prevents you from working, you may be eligible for disability benefits from Social Security.
Trigeminal neuralgia is not a listed impairment, but Social Security Disability benefits may still be available to claimants who can show that the condition impairs their ability to work.
You can get benefits when myasthenia gravis affects your muscles so much that you can no longer work.
The effects of autonomic dysfunction disorders vary wildly, but you can get benefits for disabling symptoms that prevent you from working.
Social Security disability benefits may be available to those with acoustic neuroma under the listing for disturbances of labyrinthine-vestibular function.""
Resources
Nolo's Guide to Social Security Disability
Nolo's book on how to get SSDI or SSI disability benefits explains in detail what limitations your RFC should include, depending on your particular type of medical condition. The book as written by a former chief medical consultant for the SSA.
Nolo's book on how to get SSDI or SSI disability benefits explains in detail what limitations your RFC should include, depending on your particular type of medical condition. The book as written by a former chief medical consultant for the SSA.