The veteran's service-connected disabilities, including cervical spine and low back pain with headaches, render him unable to secure or follow substantially gainful employment.
The deciding factor: The veteran's service-connected disabilities, particularly his chronic neck and back pain along with headaches, significantly impair his ability to work.
- Claimed conditions
- fasciitis, degenerative joint disease of the cervical spine, tension headaches, nondiscogenic low back pain with radiculitis and lumbar strain with degenerative changes, fracture of the right scapula, Schmorl's nodes of the thoracic spine, laceration scar on the forehead over the right eye, fracture of the tip of the nasal bone, status post septorhinophasty
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 90%
- Decision date
- November 12, 2002
- Citation
- 0216182
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What this means for you
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Related decisions
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- Denied
The Board denied service connection for various conditions, including tension headaches, bilateral plantar fasciitis, and a bilateral hearing loss disability. The Board also denied an initial compensable rating for the Veteran's headache disability.
- Partly granted
The Board denied a compensable rating for service-connected bilateral hearing loss and remanded the claims for service connection for tension headaches, insomnia, and anxiety disorder due to pre-decisional duty to assist errors.
- Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's claim for an initial compensable rating for tension headaches, alternatively diagnosed as migraine headaches, finding that the evidence did not show characteristic prostrating attacks averaging one in 2 months over the last several months.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the matter for a retrospective medical assessment regarding the severity of the Veteran's headaches without medication to determine if an earlier effective date for a 50 percent disability rating is warranted.
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