Kathryn C. Rollins v. Larry G. Massanari, Acting Commissioner of Social Security Administration

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• concluding that claimant’s pain testimony was undermined by her daily activities of caring for two children, cooking, housekeeping, laundiy, shopping, and ability to attend therapy
• holding that applicant’s description of her childcare activities was inconsistent with her claim that her pain from fibro-myalgia prevented her from any gainful activity
• “Assuming, without deciding, that fibromyalgia does constitute a qualifying ‘severe impairment’ under the Act .... ”
• finding the ALJ properly failed to credit doctor opinion where the functional 5 limitations were undermined by a conservative course of treatment and improvement in the 6 claimant’s condition.
• finding the ALJ properly failed to credit doctor opinion where the functional 23 limitations were undermined by a conservative course of treatment and improvement in the 24 claimant’s condition.
• in the Social Security context, noting that “subjective pain testimony cannot be rejected on the sole ground that it is not fully corroborated by objective medical evidence”

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