Making Your Disability Claim Count
Whatever type of disability you have and no matter how long you have been unable to work — it isn't what you know or what your friends and family know that counts. Only a very few of our clients have had sufficient knowledge of the Social Security and medical systems to handle even a part of their claim process. An old saying is "a fool has himself for an attorney." The same could be true for someone trying to fight the Government on his or her own.
What counts is that the Social Security Administration and its representatives are convinced that you are truly disabled and that your disability will prevent you from doing any work for at least one full year.
Milam Law helps families and individuals throughout California's Central Valleys obtain Social Security Disability and Supplemental Security Income benefits. In fact, this is the only work we do. For a free consultation with an experienced attorney — call us directly at 877-822-1346 (toll free) or contact us online.
Physical Injuries, Mental Impairments and Other Disabling Conditions
Decades of work involving SSD and SSI claims has allowed us to help people suffering from a broad spectrum of physical and mental impairments. Our experience includes:
- Injuries, including amputations, fractures, and repetitive stress injuries such as carpal tunnel syndrome.
- Orthopedic conditions to the spine and all joints, including degenerative disease, arthritis, herniation, osteoporosis, and stenosis
- Mental and emotional illnesses, including post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), bipolar disorder, brain injuries, personality disorders, special learning problems, clinical depression, schizophrenia, and anxiety disorders
- Hard-to-document conditions such as fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, migraines, auto-immune disorders, headaches, and complex regional pain syndrome
- Cardiac problems, including congestive heart failure, cardiomyopathy, coronary artery disease.
- Neurological problems including seizures, strokes, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease, carotid artery disease, neuropathy, reflex sympathetic dystrophy, torticollis, neurofibrosis, ataxia, aphasia, Guillain-Barre syndrome, Tourettes' syndrome, TMJ syndrome, post-polio syndrome, Asperger's syndrome, and restless leg syndrome
- Dermatological conditions such as psoriasis, dermatitis, and eczema
- Renal, GI and Urinary problems, including bladder or bowel frequency, hepatitis, liver disease, Chrohn's disease, and collitis
- Breathing conditions such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, asthma, allergies, and sleep apnea
- Pain, such as that requiring treatment with pain management and physical medicine and rehabilitation
- Inflammatory conditions including rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, and gout
- Onchological problems including cancer, and lymphoma
- Hearing and related problems including hearing loss, tinnitus, dizziness, and deafnes
- Vision problems including reduced vision near 20/200 bilaterally, loss of field vision, excessive eye tearing or dryness, tunnel vision, cataracts which cannot be cured with surgery, and double vision
- Obesity and related problems
- Diabetes, and resulting complications such as neuropathy, nephropathy, and retinopathy
At Milam Law, we can refer you to websites and groups who may be able to provide you even more insight into your condition. Mr. Milam has spoken to many such groups over the years, at their invitation.
The first step you can take to help your own case is to let your doctors know about every symptom you've experienced and every way in which the injury or condition has affected you. Without that information — your doctor will probably not be able to give you a correct evaluation. You won't get the right treatment. And you need to get the treatment for all your severe medical problems so we can get the kind of documentation needed to succeed with your claim. Keeping a journal can be very useful for this purpose and can also help us to make your case; you should get a copy of this journal to your doctors and us. If we find it helpful and after we review it, given your particular problems.
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Our lawyers and staff are 100 percent committed to changing our clients' lives for the better. Let us start helping you today. To arrange for a free consultation — call our main offices in Fresno at 877-822-1346 (toll free) or, contact us by e-mail. Flexible appointment times are available.
