The veteran's degenerative joint disease, lumbar spine, is rated at 70 percent effective January 1995. His residuals of left mandible fracture are rated at 10 percent and his residuals of right wrist fracture are also rated at 10 percent.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner found the veteran's subjective complaints of pain to be consistent with the physical findings, despite some discrepancies in the examiner's assessment of the veteran's credibility. The veteran has severe limitation of motion of the lumbar spine and a compression deformity of L2 vertebral body, warranting a 70 percent evaluation.
- Claimed conditions
- Degenerative Joint Disease, Lumbar Spine, Residuals of Left Mandible Fracture, Residuals of Right Wrist Fracture
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 70%
- Decision date
- August 29, 2000
- Citation
- 0022885
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