The Board has granted an increased disability rating of 10 percent for the adherent scar of the right leg, effective as of the date of the decision. Additionally, service connection was granted for a low back disorder, a right knee disorder and a right ankle disability on a secondary basis.
The deciding factor: The VA medical records showed that the appellant's right leg muscle injury resulted in a well-healed adherent scar with definite but not marked or moderately severe weakness.
- Claimed conditions
- Adherent scar of the right leg, Degenerative changes of the right ankle
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- March 17, 2000
- Citation
- 0007289
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