The Board has granted a 10% rating for the service-connected residuals of left index finger injury, effective from the date of the decision.
The deciding factor: The VA examination findings and the veteran's testimony supported an increased rating based on functional limitation approximating favorable ankylosis of the left index finger.
- Claimed conditions
- left index finger injury
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- June 4, 2004
- Citation
- 0414433
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Decisions by this judge: 1,599 · Granted: 37% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
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