The Board has granted a 50 percent rating for the veteran's service-connected lumbar disc degeneration from July 18, 2001. The effective date remains pending as it is not specified in this decision.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner found that the low back disability was minimally disabling and manifested by pain on motion with degenerative changes at L1 without evidence of sciatic neuropathy or neurological findings appropriate to site of the diseased disc at L1.
- Claimed conditions
- lumbar disc degeneration
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 50%
- Decision date
- September 20, 2002
- Citation
- 0212623
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