The veteran's service-connected chronic low back pain is currently rated at 10 percent, and her residuals of a stress fracture of the pelvis are not compensable. The Board finds that she meets the criteria for a 20 percent evaluation for her low back pain.
The deciding factor: VA examination in August 1999 showed only 50 degrees of forward flexion of the lumbar spine, approaching moderate limitation of motion.
- Claimed conditions
- Chronic Low Back Pain, Pelvic Stress Fracture
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- March 9, 2000
- Citation
- 0006425
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