The Board denied the appellant's claims for an increased rating for her service-connected chronic sacroiliitis and degenerative changes at L-4 to L-5 and L-5 to S-1, as well as her claim for service connection for a chronic gynecological disability. The RO continued the 20 percent rating for her groin strain injury with chronic sacroiliitis but denied both issues.
The deciding factor: The VA medical evidence did not support the appellant's claims for an increased rating or service connection, and she was found to have no qualifying incapacitating episodes of her spinal disorder during the previous twelve months.
- Claimed conditions
- Chronic sacroiliitis, Pelvic pain
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 2, 2005
- Citation
- 0532637
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