How does the social security administration view CTS?
At the moment, there is no entry in Social Security Disability’s (aka DDS, or Disability Determination Services) Listing of Impairments manual for Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. This, despite the fact that a significant number of individuals filing for disability benefits list CTS as one of their primary disabling conditions. Unfortunately, one can only infer, from the lack of an entry in the listing book, that the condition is not considered by the ssd and ssi programs to be strictly disabling, in and of itself. Can you still win benefits if you have carpal tunnel syndrome? Yes, a claimant with cts can still be successful in obtaining disability benefits. In fact, claimants who have severe carpal tunnel syndrome and whose past work was based on the ability to perform repetitive or dexterous hand movements, or on the ability to use a certain level of grip strength in the course of their job duties, will often be judged incapable of returning to this type of past work. Will a claimant’s inabil
