The Board has granted a 20 percent disability rating for the veteran's service-connected chronic low back pain, effective from December 9, 2004. The claim for TDIU due to service-connected disabilities remains pending.
The deciding factor: The VA medical examination revealed that the veteran's service-connected low back disability was manifested by no more than subjective complaints of pain and slight limitation of motion with forward flexion to 70 degrees, extension to 18 degrees, lateral flexion and rotation to 20 degrees. The Board found this met the criteria for a 20 percent rating.
- Claimed conditions
- chronic low back pain, left femur fracture with healed osteomyelitis and limitation of motion of the left knee
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 20%
- Decision date
- April 25, 2005
- Citation
- 0511686
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What this means for you
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