How To Know If Your Medical Condition Qualifies For Social Security Disability Benefits (SSDI)

The Social Security Administration that approves benefits for those who apply have an impairment listings manual called the blue book. Inside, it lists numerous medical conditions and impairments, both mental and physical, that will dictate whether you qualify for SSDI.

Here’s a list of various impairments listed in the blue book:

1. Musculoskeletal System – includes things like dysfunction of a joint, spinal disorders, amputations, burns and more.
2. Special Senses and Speech – includes things like loss of visual efficiency, loss of speech, loss of hearing and more.
3. Respiratory Disorders – includes things like chronic pulmonary insufficiency, asthma, cystic fibrosis, bronchiectasis, sleep-related breathing disorders and more.
4. Cardiovascular System – includes things like chronic heart failure, ischemic heart disease, heart transplant and more.
5. Digestive System – includes things like chronic liver disease, inflammatory bowel disease, short bowel syndrome, weight loss due to a digestive disorder, liver transplants and more.
6. Genitourinary Disorders – kidney disease.
7. Hematological Disorders – includes things like chronic anemia, low blood platelet count, coagulation defects (hemophilia), bone marrow disorders, and more.
8. Skin Disorders – includes things like chronic infections of the skin or mucous membranes, dermatitis, burns and more.
9. Endocrine Disorders – includes things like thyroid gland disorders, adrenal gland disorders, diabetes mellitus and more.
10. Congenital Disorders that Affect Multiple Body Systems – non-mosaic Down syndrome.
11. Neurological Disorders – includes things like convulsive epilepsy, nonconvulsive epilepsy, Parkinsonian syndrome, cerebral palsy, spinal cord or nerve root lesions, multiple sclerosis, muscular dystrophy, peripheral neuropathies, cerebral trauma and more.
12. Mental Disorders – includes things like organic mental disorders, schizophrenic, paranoid and other psychotic disorders, mental retardation, anxiety-related disorders, personality disorders, substance addiction disorders, autistic disorder and more.
13. Cancer (Malignant Neoplastic Diseases) – includes things like soft tissue tumors of the head and neck, skin, lymphoma, leukemia, multiple myeloma, breast, lungs, esophagus or stomach, small intestine, large intestine, pancreas, kidneys, urinary bladder-carcinoma, cancers of the female genital tract-carcinoma, prostrate gland-carcinoma, testicles and more.
14. Immune System Disorders – includes things like systemic lupus erythematosus, systemic sclerosis, immune deficiency disorders, HIV, inflammatory arthritis and more.

This is just an overview of the many impairments listed in the blue book used by the Social Security Administration (SSA) in order to determine if you qualify for benefits. To see a complete list or to verify that your specific impairment is valid, you can visit the SSA website.

If you think that your specific impairment qualifies, it’s always recommended that you first visit a doctor in order to attain a medical opinion confirming your impairment arming you with verifiable medical proof. It will help make the qualification process easier allowing you to potentially get approved faster for benefits when you go to apply.

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