How to Qualify for Disability with Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS) Complex regional pain syndrome gives you prolonged, extreme pain, sometimes starting with an injury or surgery. It often involves damage to your nervous system, though doctors are still studying the causes. If it’s severe enough, it stops you from working. When that happens, you can steady yourself financially by applying for Social Security Disability benefits.
Common Symptoms of CRPS To win disability benefits, you must show that your symptoms of complex regional pain syndrome make it impossible to work. Common symptoms include:
DECREASED ABILITY TO MOVE THE AFFECTED LIMB
UNUSUAL SWEATING IN THE AFFECTED AREA
WARM, COOL OR BURNING SENSATIONS
ABNORMAL NAIL AND HAIR GROWTH
SQUEEZING OR “PINS AND NEEDLES” SENSATIONS
STIFFNESS IN AFFECTED JOINTS
CHANGES IN SKIN COLOR
SWELLING
CHANGES IN SKIN TEXTURE
TREMORS OR JERKING MOVEMENTS
Proving Disability with CRPS You have to do more than just report that you have CRPS to qualify for disability benefits. Using medical records confirming your symptoms and laboratory findings from your doctors, you must prove:
THAT YOU CAN’T CONTINUE IN PAST WORK BECAUSE OF THE SEVERITY OF YOUR CRPS
THAT YOU ALSO CAN’T SWITCH TO NEW WORK
THAT YOUR CONDITION WILL LIKELY LAST, OR HAS ALREADY LASTED, AT LEAST A YEAR
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