The veteran's Tietze's Syndrome (Costochondritis) is currently rated as noncompensably disabling. The Board has determined that the current evidence supports a 10% rating for this condition, effective from December 1996.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence demonstrates functional loss due to pain in the area of the costosternal junctions, which more nearly approximates a disability picture warranting a 10% evaluation under Diagnostic Code 5319.
- Claimed conditions
- Acquired Low Back Disability, Nasal Obstruction with Related Chronic Sinusitis, Postoperative Residuals of Bilateral Herniorrhaphy with Scar, Tietze's Syndrome (Costochondritis)
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- May 20, 2003
- Citation
- 0309266
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