The Board has granted a 60 percent disability rating for the veteran's chronic low back strain, effective from the date of the decision. The veteran is also granted entitlement to a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence shows severe limitation of motion and degenerative disc disease with sciatic neuropathy, warranting a 60 percent evaluation under Diagnostic Code 5293 for intervertebral disc syndrome.
- Claimed conditions
- chronic low back strain
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 60%
- Decision date
- March 11, 2003
- Citation
- 0304343
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