The Board has granted an initial 20 percent rating for the veteran's low back strain with pain, effective from the date of his claim. The tinea pedis remains rated as noncompensable.
The deciding factor: The veteran's low back disorder produces some muscle spasm on occasion and pain which is relieved by medication; limitations of motion are no more than slight to moderate; symptoms are ongoing but aggravated by weather changes, with negative X-rays for degenerative changes. The tinea pedis persists in limited areas requiring occasional antifungal or antipuritic steroid treatment.
- Claimed conditions
- low back strain with pain
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 20%
- Decision date
- September 23, 2004
- Citation
- 0426510
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