The Board has granted a 40 percent disability rating for the veteran's service-connected chronic lumbosacral strain and lumbar degenerative disc disease with mild right lower extremity S-1 radiculopathy, effective from December 19, 2000.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence showed significant worsening of the veteran's back disorder on and after December 19, 2000, warranting a higher disability rating.
- Claimed conditions
- chronic lumbosacral strain, lumbar degenerative disc disease
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 40%
- Decision date
- May 17, 2002
- Citation
- 0204661
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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
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Granted
The Board granted a 40 percent rating for the Veteran's lumbar degenerative disc disease, resolving reasonable doubt in favor of the claimant.
- Dismissed
The appeal for a disability rating in excess of 20 percent for chronic lumbosacral strain and service connection for right leg condition was dismissed due to an impermissible concurrent election of review options.
- Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's claim for service connection for lumbar degenerative disc disease, finding no evidence of a nexus between the condition and his military service.
- Remanded (sent back)
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