Greta,

How can an insurance company's claims people NOT kmow that CP is
lifelong? There's evidence that CP's effects are at least cumulative,
if not progressive... The questions would be funny if they didn't
demonstrate almost willful ignorance.

On Jul 23, 2009 3:22pm, greta von der luft <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hello,
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> I as a PT had to appeal a w/c for a gentleman with quadriparetic athetoid CP
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> with severe muscle contractures who was in his late 60's. Their questions
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> which I had to answer for him during his appeal to get his power w/c were
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> interesting. They were:
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>   1.  Doesn't a person grow out of CP? Why hasn't he grown out of this
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>   disability yet?
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>   2. Why does he need a power w/c can't a manual w/c? Why wouldn't a manual
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>   w/c be sufficient?
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>   3. Does he still work?
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>   4. Why does he need a custom seat (contour) with a tilt in space system?
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> All of these questions were answered in the LMN. However, it the letter was
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> over ten pages single spaced. Although I must admit I did not say CP was a
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> lifelong health condition because I thought that was known.
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> Good luck,
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> Greta
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Kendall

An unreasonable man (but my wife says that's redundant!)

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all
progress depends on the unreasonable man.

-George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950

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