The veteran's claims for increased ratings for his cervical and thoracic spine conditions, as well as his bilateral shoulder disorders, were granted with a 10 percent rating assigned for each condition.
The deciding factor: The VA determined that the veteran's degenerative arthritis of the cervical and thoracic spines warranted a 10 percent evaluation based on limitation of motion. For both shoulders, the evaluations remained at 10 percent as there was no evidence of more than slight or limited motion.
- Claimed conditions
- degenerative arthritis of the cervical spine, degenerative arthritis of the thoracic spine
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- May 15, 2002
- Citation
- 0204592
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