Georgia Disability Lawyer BlogVitamin D Deficiency Could Increase Balance Problems in Fibromyalgia Patients
Persons who suffer from fibromyalgia and also have low levels of vitamin D in their bodies could suffer from balance and posture problems.
Those are the findings of a new study published in the journal, Modern Hematology. Patients with fibromyalgia often suffer from an increased risk of falls. Researchers found in their study that vitamin deficiency is linked to a higher risk of such balance issues in patients.
This is not the first study to show these findings. Researchers have long believed that lack of vitamin D leads to muscle weakness and deficient mineralization in the bones, which contributes to a high risk of fall accidents. Researchers say that vitamin D deficiency could negatively affect a person’s balance and also the intensity of pain levels that suffer from fibromyalgia.
SSA’s new ruling clarifies the evaluation of fibromyalgia cases for administrative law judges and disability examiners. When established by appropriate medical evidence, fibromyalgia may be a medically determinable impairment that is the basis for a finding of disability. Once fibromyalgia is established as a medically determinable impairment, it will be considered in the sequential evaluation process to determine whether the person is disabled. As in all cases the claimant is required to provide “sufficient objective evidence to support a finding that the person’s impairment so limits the person’s functional abilities that it precludes him or her from performing substantial gainful activity. “