The veteran's service-connected disabilities, including weakness of the left arm and lower extremity secondary to a cerebral vascular accident (CVA), chronic hyperextension of the left knee, and left facial weakness, preclude him from securing or following substantially gainful employment. The Board has granted a total disability rating based on individual unemployability by reason of service-connected disabilities.
The deciding factor: The veteran's service-connected disabilities render him unable to secure or follow a substantially gainful occupation due to his inability to use his left arm and leg, as well as his facial weakness and hyperextension of the knee.
- Claimed conditions
- weakness of the left arm, weakness of the left lower extremity, incomplete left homonymous hemianopsias (left superior quadrantanopia), chronic hyperextension of the left knee, left facial weakness
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- October 28, 2002
- Citation
- 0215109
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- Remanded (sent back)
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