Orthopedic Injuries and Social Security Disability Claims: Strategies for Successfully Proving a Social Security Disability Case

Musculoskeletal impairments are the most popular impairment alleged by claimants seeking disability benefits. The back, neck, shoulders and knees are often alleged as a claimant’s most debilitating injuries. But how does one prove that an orthopedic impairment prevents them from working? What is needed to meet the claimant’s burden of proving they are disabled? Disability lawyers Brian Mittman and Scott Daniels break down a claimant’s burden of proof while focusing on proving a disability claim when an orthopedic impairment is alleged. They’ll identify the most powerful evidence and significant social security regulations and rulings that will inevitably increase your client’s chances of securing disability benefits.

Learning Objectives:

1. Understand Social Security’s strict definition of disability
2. Discover a claimant’s difficult burden of proof in a disability claim
3. Identify how orthopedic impairments are evaluated by Social Security
4. Learn about Social Security’s evidentiary requirements when orthopedic impairments are alleged
5. Learn about important courtroom strategies in highlighting specific evidence
6. Discover how to effectively advise your client in medically developing a case centered on orthopedic injuries
7. Target specific types of evidence to facilitate your client’s case
   

This course originally appeared as a part of our December 2014 Bridge the Gap Event.