Clarity on criteria for HRM

Bryando

Can somebody confirm the criteria for high rate mobility.

Is it unable to walk more than 50 meters with discomfort, or 200 meters? Is it severe discomfort, if so what is severe?

rogerblack

There are several criteria.
There is no hard and fast distance - 30m is a common benchmark.
Any walking done where you are in severe discomfort is generally not counted. Nor is any walking done at risk to health.

Bryando

Thanks.

Just going through my appeal stuff tonight. They refused mobility high rate as on moderate pain relief and don't see a specialist.

Pain relief: 50mg Tramadol, 8 per day. Paracetamol 500mg , 8 times per day as well as heat rub.

Stated can walk 0 metes without having discomfort. Pain is always their and gets worse on walking.

luminated

One aspect about which to be careful is not to be a macho man. Don't call pain an ache if it really is a pain. I have realised more and more in the last two years things have hit me where I say discomfort or even severe discomfort. My family & friends who have seen me with these discomforts have told me my face shows extreme pain. I guess I am of an age I don't like making a fuss.

This hasn't just been with walking but in the past year, numerous extremely painful unstable angina attacks 9/10, two heart attacks 8/10, on-going neuropathic pain 7/10 & more recently very severe bladder problems 8/10.

So now I have modified my response to Doctors asking how bad it is to use the word pain NOT ache or discomfort.

I really don't want to disagree withy Roger as I am one of his biggest admirers for the help he gives but when I got HRM it was given based on the very slow speed with my walking. I had no idea of distances and put down I had been doing 50-80 metres absolute top but have a range of times it took to walk these distance. So in my case my award (one year ago - have things changed) was based on the time taken more than a lower distance.

Good luck

Horseunderwater

That is exactly why I get HRM - I have to stop after about 6-9 meters - to rest and steady myself in case I fall, so it can take some time to cover 50 meters, which is the main criterior for it. I also get pain in my feet and my ankles do not flex as they are so swollen due to drug side effects so I would need ambulance help to be gotten up again. It truly is not funny being this way and I so wish I was not. But it has happened and I have to live with it.