I agree with this. Having a firm diagnosis certainly is helpful as the Social Security Administration docs are becoming more and more familiar with it, but granting you disability status is more complex than that. There is your age, your "functional limitations", etc.

Best advice I can give is to get your primary CRPS doctor to write a letter outlining your "functional and occupational limitations". That can make all of the difference. Submit that letter to Social Security.

With that letter, all of my extensive medical records and solid legal representation, I was awarded benefits on my initial application.

Here is a link to a forum that specializes in Social Security Disability. Check it out and good luck on your next hearing...

http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/forum28.html