Back Pain and Disability Retirement for Federal Workers
Back pain — diagnosed by many different designations and causes, including Degenerative Disc Disease, Spondylolisthesis, spinal arthritis, multi-level disc bulges, disc […] Read More …
Specific Medical Conditions
Federal Worker Disability Retirement: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (often referred to by its acronym, PTSD), is often associated with war-time experiences and specific traumatic incidents. Often accompanied […] Read More …
Early Retirement for Disabled Federal Workers: Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
It may seem antithetical to talk about the psychiatric condition of Generalized Anxiety Disorder in filing for Federal Disability Retirements benefit under FERS or CSRS, especially during […] Read More …
Postal and Federal Employees Disability Retirement: Major Depression
Federal and Postal workers who are inquiring about filing for Federal Disability Retirement benefits under FERS or CSRS often lack any context as to his or her own particular situation, […] Read More …
Medical Retirement for Federal Workers: Chronic Pain
Chronic pain in a Federal Disability Retirement application can result in a “catch-22” (as that famous Joseph Heller novel forever captured that phrase) — on the one hand, the diffuse and radiating, […] Read More …
Disability Retirement for Federal Government Employees: Anxiety
Anxiety is a special form of a psychiatric disability — one which must be approached with thoughtful care in preparing a Federal Disability Retirement application under FERS or CSRS. […] Read More …
OPM Disability Retirement: The Case of Fibromyalgia
Fibromyalgia is one of those medical conditions that the Office of Personnel Management systematically “targets” as a condition which is prima facie “suspect”. This is despite the fact that there are cases which implicitly “admonish” […] Read More …