In the United States, more than one in four adults lives with a disability. Whether a disability affects mobility, cognition, or overall independence, understanding these conditions can be crucial when seeking compensation for long-term impacts. Learn more about what medical conditions often qualify in personal injury and long-term disability cases.
1. Musculoskeletal Conditions
Musculoskeletal conditions impact the muscles, bones, joints, or connective tissues in the body. They can occur because of wear and tear, underlying conditions, and physical trauma from car accidents or falls. Fibromyalgia and degenerative disc disease are examples that not only cause pain but also affect your ability to keep up with work and family responsibilities.
2. Nervous System Conditions
Your brain, spinal cord, nerves, and sensory organs make up your nervous system. It’s possible to suffer trauma that impacts your vision or hearing, including traumatic brain injuries, and you can also suffer spinal cord injuries that could leave you paralyzed. Nervous system conditions make up a large percentage of disability claims in the United States.
3. Mood Disorders
Mood disorders are conditions that impact your state of mind, thought patterns, and emotions. Depression is the most common of these issues. It can be severe enough to keep you from working. When looking at what qualifies for short-term disability, conditions like depression could be examples if it’s possible to manage them with medications.
4. Intellectual Disabilities
Intellectual disabilities impact how a person thinks, resolves problems, and learns. They could also affect adaptive behavior. These can be congenital conditions, meaning they are present at birth, or they can develop as a result of physical trauma to the brain.
5. Circulatory System Problems
Your arteries, veins, and heart make up your circulatory system. These pathways carry blood rich in oxygen and nutrients throughout your body while also helping to remove waste products. Common circulatory system issues include weak blood vessels, blood flow inefficiency, and problems with your heart’s pumping ability.
6. Psychotic Disorders
People who have psychotic disorders, such as schizophrenia, can experience hallucinations, delusions, disorganized speech, and even catatonic behavior.
7. Other Mental Disorders
All other mental disorders not already listed fit in this category. Severe attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and personality disorders are some examples. They are issues disruptive enough to prevent people from living normal lives or holding jobs.
8. Injuries
Injuries can require lengthy recovery periods and possible lifelong assistance needs. Slip and fall incidents, collisions, dog bites, and workplace accidents can all cause them. Common injuries include broken bones, soft tissue wounds, and burns.
9. Organic Mental Disorders
This category does not include psychiatric disorders. Instead, it focuses on conditions that impact mental health due to a physical brain illness or injury. They could be temporary or permanent. Alzheimer’s is the most common organic mental disorder.
10. Neoplasms
Neoplasms are abnormal growths in the body. They can be benign, pre-cancerous, or cancerous. Even the ones that are not malignant can cause pain and all manner of other limitations that could prevent you from living as you once did. Fibromas and lipomas are some types of neoplasms.
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If you have been in an accident in which you sustained an injury that prevents you from working or developed a condition that makes it impossible to support yourself, filing for disability benefits is essential. In cases involving accidents that happened because of another party’s misconduct, you can also pursue a personal injury claim to recover losses.
To have a chance to obtain the assistance you need if you can’t work, you need to hire an experienced attorney. They can guide you through every step of the process, including understanding the signs that you will be approved for disability and what that could mean for your future.
For more information, please contact our experienced California personal injury attorneys at Mercado Kramer, LLP, for a free consultation. We have offices in Salinas and San Jose, CA, and we serve throughout Monterey County.
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