The veteran's chronic post-operative right wrist injury residuals, including scaphoid rotatory subluxation and joint fusion, are granted as the result of his pursuit of a VA vocational rehabilitation program prior to being declared rehabilitated.
The deciding factor: The disability was incurred during the veteran's pursuit of a course of VA vocational rehabilitation not due to his own willful misconduct.
- Claimed conditions
- right wrist injury residuals, scaphoid rotatory subluxation residuals, right scaphotrapezium, scaphotrapezoid, and trapezoid trapezial joint fusion
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- April 22, 2004
- Citation
- 0410459
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 3,038 · Granted: 30% (granted or partly granted, in the indexed decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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What this means for you
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Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Whole decision: Granted
The Veteran's right wrist injury residuals, including scar and limitation of motion, is granted an initial rating of 10 percent.
- Whole decision: Denied
The Veteran's claim for a total disability rating based on individual unemployability (TDIU) prior to June 17, 2010 was denied as his service-connected disabilities did not render him unable to secure and follow substantially gainful employment.,On August 13, 2015, the Veteran's TDIU claim from that date forward was also denied because none of his service-connected conditions (other than adjustment disorder with mixed anxiety and depressed mood) on their own or collectively met the criteria for a total disability rating based on individual unemployability.
- Whole decision: Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the Veteran's claims due to new evidence and for further development.
- Whole decision: Granted
The Veteran's combined rating for right wrist injury residuals, including osteoarthritis and carpal tunnel syndrome, was granted at a 70 percent level effective February 2, 2015. The appeal as to the separate rating for carpal tunnel syndrome has been withdrawn.
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