The veteran's service-connected disability is rated at 40 percent, and the Board has granted a 60 percent rating based on pronounced intervertebral disc syndrome.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence showed marked pain with any significant motion, muscle spasms, and L5 sensory neuropathic disease, which more nearly approximated the criteria for a 60 percent evaluation under Diagnostic Code 5293.
- Claimed conditions
- residuals, pelvic shear fracture with pelvic tilt, fracture right pubic rami and separation of sacroiliac joints, chronic lumbosacral strain, decreased sensory function of L5-S1 of right lower extremity
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 60%
- Decision date
- January 9, 2001
- Citation
- 0100448
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