The Board has granted a 40 percent evaluation for the veteran's multiple joint arthralgia, which includes limitation of motion of the lumbar spine. The veteran also meets criteria for a total rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities.
The deciding factor: The chronic residuals of the veteran's multiple joint arthralgia include severe limitation of motion in several joints (lumbar spine, cervical spine, right shoulder, left shoulder, right knee, and left knee), which meet the criteria for a 40 percent evaluation under the applicable rating codes.
- Claimed conditions
- Multiple joint arthralgia
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 40%
- Decision date
- April 28, 2003
- Citation
- 0307987
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- Granted
The Veteran's multiple joint arthralgia, including residuals, was initially rated at 20 percent from December 19, 2005 until February 7, 2012. Since then, the disability has been rated at 40 percent.
- Denied
The Board finds that the Veteran does not have a diagnosed chronic multiple joint disability of the pelvis, hips, knees, ankles, and feet. The medical evidence does not support service connection for his claimed condition.
- Denied
The veteran's service-connected multiple joint arthralgias and night sweats have been manifested by intermittent subjective complaints of arthralgia in various joints, but no demonstrated limitation of motion or functional loss. The veteran's night sweats are also noted, with the veteran being awakened one time a night by these symptoms. These conditions do not warrant an increased disability rating.
- Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claims for increased ratings for his service-connected lumbar myositis, psychoneurosis and conversion hysteria, residuals of shrapnel wounds of the left thigh and pelvis with retained foreign bodies and scars, and residuals of shell fragment wounds of the right thigh and left leg. The veteran was also denied entitlement to a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities.
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