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PAD Disability Attorney

PAD also known as Peripheral Arterial Disease , is a disease that prevents parts of the body from receiving blood supply, it is a listing under social security disability law. Many of my clients with PAD will only be able to walk a few blocks, and then claudication takes place, claudication is seen when persons with PAD limp after walking a short distance. It is a direct result of the muscle not receiving enough blood. 

PAD affects many individuals as they walk, a muscle at rest ...

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Arterial Disease Disability Attorney

Arterial Disease requires the following from the disability listing at Social Security:

A. Intermittent claudication with failure to visualize the common femoral or deep femoral artery in one extremity, (as shown by medical records); or

B. Intermittent claudication with marked impairment of peripheral arterial circulation as determined by Doppler studies showing:

         1. Resting ankle/brachial systolic blood pressure ratio of less than 0.50; or

         2. Decrease in systolic blood pressure at the ankle on exercise of 50 percent or more of the pre-exercise level at the ...

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