The Board has granted a 60 percent rating for the service-connected lumbosacral strain, effective from March 1992. The veteran's claim for financial assistance in acquiring specially adapted housing or special home adaptation is referred to the RO for further action.
The deciding factor: The VA examinations and medical evidence showed that the veteran's service-connected lumbosacral strain more nearly approximated pronounced intervertebral disc syndrome with persistent symptoms compatible with sciatic neuropathy, warranting a 60 percent rating under Diagnostic Code 5293.
- Claimed conditions
- lumbosacral strain, generalized anxiety disorder
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 60%
- Decision date
- December 7, 2001
- Citation
- 0127117
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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.
What you can do next
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- Remanded (sent back)
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- Dismissed
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