Arthritis Disability Benefits

Arthritis is a frequent basis for successful Social Security disability claims. Arthritis means pain in a joint. There’s more than one reason why someone might have pain in a joint so there are various types of arthritis. Here are a few:

• Osteoarthritis — The garden variety of arthritis that everyone gets as they age.
• Inflammatory arthritis — This is caused by one of a number of diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis that can cause dramatic symptoms and joint destruction. This one has nothing to do with age. Children can come down with rheumatoid arthritis.
• Post-traumatic arthritis — You may have had only a few aches and pains in that joint you injured until years later when it finally catches up with you. This doesn’t happen after all fractures — most don’t involve joints and those which do don’t always result in post-traumatic arthritis. 
• Gout — Caused by excess uric acid in the bloodstream which deposits out as sharp crystals, most commonly in the big toe. Gout is well-known as extremely painful. In most cases, but not all, gout can be controlled with medication.