The veteran's mechanical low back pain with disc disease, L4-L5 level is currently rated at 20 percent. The right ear defective hearing is rated as noncompensable (0 percent).
The deciding factor: The medical evidence does not support a higher rating for the service-connected conditions.
- Claimed conditions
- Mechanical low back pain with disc disease, L4-L5 level, Right ear defective hearing
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 20%
- Decision date
- March 3, 2000
- Citation
- 0005785
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