The Board has granted service connection for the veteran's right middle finger disability and assigned a 10 percent rating effective from November 1, 1996. The issue of increased rating for cervical spine disorder is pending. Service connection for degenerative disc disease of the cervical spine is also raised.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence supports the claim that the veteran's right middle finger disability is related to his service-connected injury and has resulted in functional loss equivalent to ankylosis, warranting a 10 percent rating under Diagnostic Code 5226.
- Claimed conditions
- Temporomandibular joint syndrome (TMJ), Cervical spine disorder, Right middle finger disability
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- March 29, 2000
- Citation
- 0008391
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What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
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