The Board has assigned a 60 percent evaluation for the veteran's lumbosacral strain with degenerative disc disease of the lumbar spine, which is the highest available rating under Diagnostic Code 5293.
The deciding factor: The evidence supports the assignment of a 60 percent evaluation based on severe, recurring attacks with intermittent relief and demonstrable muscle spasm, absent ankle jerk or other neurological findings appropriate to the site of the diseased disc with little intermittent relief.
- Claimed conditions
- lumbosacral strain with degenerative disc disease
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 60%
- Decision date
- October 17, 2001
- Citation
- 0124788
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