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What are the requirements to qualify for disability from chronic back pain?
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You can't, Moma: Pain of any cause or any severity by itself isn't a medically definable impairment. You have to have other conditions that combine with it to equal a disability listing, or you have to establish that your residual functional capacity is low enough to qualify on that basis; with back pain alone, that just doesn't happen. Ever.
Answered 5/21/2016
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