The Board has granted a 40 percent disability rating for service-connected residuals of lumbosacral surgery effective August 3, 1996. The claim for an earlier effective date for the 60 percent rating is denied.
The deciding factor: The veteran's symptoms approximated severe intervertebral disc syndrome (IVDS) beginning in August 1996 and were more than moderate by that time.
- Claimed conditions
- lumbosacral strain, left S1 entrapment radiculopathy
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 40%
- Decision date
- July 31, 2000
- Citation
- 0020033
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- Dismissed
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- Denied
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