The Board has determined that the veteran's residuals of a fracture of the left wrist, prior to June 11, 2001, warrant a 20 percent rating based on limitation of pronation.
The deciding factor: Painful motion and crepitation with radial deviation of the wrist supported the grant of a 20 percent rating for that period.
- Claimed conditions
- Fracture of the left wrist, Impairment of ulnar nerve
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- February 28, 2005
- Citation
- 0505434
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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: Denied
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- Whole decision: Denied
The Board has denied the veteran's claim for an earlier effective date for service connection of a fracture of the left wrist, finding that March 14, 2003 is the correct date of claim.
- Whole decision: Denied
The Board has determined that the veteran's left wrist disability, which is service-connected and involves a fracture, does not warrant an evaluation in excess of 20 percent.
- Whole decision: 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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