Overlapping Conditions

Please can you advise what is the best way to explain overlaping conditions.

For example, my friend has lumbar and cervical spondylosis and fabromyalgia.
Both conditions effect her ability to walk due to pain, exhaustion and discomfort and self propel a wheelchair.

Is it necessary that one would have to be more problamatic than the other to get S/G status???

Radhika.

Thanks a million.

Friends ESA50 is really looking "STRONG", thanks to you guys.

Radhika.

radhika wrote:

Thanks a million.

Friends ESA50 is really looking "STRONG", thanks to you guys.

Radhika.

This is an extract from a training paper when I was a DLA Tribunal Member.It was written at that time for DLA, by Dr Mansel Aylward ( a Senior Medical Adviser to the DWP). Just wondered if it could also be applied to ESA. Perhaps other moderators could comment who are familiar with ESA.

Interaction and overlap of Disabling Conditions

People may have more than one medical condition and the effect on overall disability can be very significant. Because of the interaction of different conditions overall disability may be much greater than would be expected if each condition were considered individually.

The individual conditions themselves may not give rise to significant care or mobility needs, whereas their combined effect does. For example, a person with mild physical disability and mild to moderate learning difficulty may find it hard, because of the learning difficulty, to adapt to and cope with the physical disability; a person with visual impairment is more disabled if also deaf, and an independent wheelchair user will lose independence if arthritis develops in the upper limbs. When combined with the normal effects of ageing, even minor disabling conditions can give rise to care needs.

Many thanks for 0 feedback ! Members as well as Moderators feel free to comment on my previous post.

Jim,

Since starting this thread yesterday, i have only just logged on and read your post.

I must say that the information you have provided is absolutely brilliant and invaluable, especially if one needs to appeal!!!!

It really does give a clear and accurate account of how overlaping conditions can have a snowball affect on ones limitations. This has been clearly identified in the examples given.

I would like to say "THANKS A MILLION", as this information, i truely believe will not just be of benefit to my dear friend, but also to the majority of members who are suffering with more than one illness that has knock on effects in their ability to perform "daily tasks" in the work envoirment. By clearly liasing this in ones ESA50, can in my opinion make a difference between being placed i WRAG or S/G.

Thank you very much for taking the time to "dig" out this invaluable information,(Members with multiple problems, please take note) and posting it on this brilliant forum.

Thanks a million.

Radhika and Friend.