The Board found that the veteran's service-connected lumbosacral strain, with residuals L4-5 bulging disc with discectomy and residual radiculopathy and severe spinal stenosis at L5-S1 has not presented such an exceptional or unusual disability picture as to render impractical the application of the Schedule for Rating Disabilities. Therefore, the claim for a higher evaluation was denied.
The deciding factor: The veteran's service-connected lumbosacral strain did not present with more than severe limitation of motion in the lumbar spine or neurologic abnormalities that were more than moderate in degree.
- Claimed conditions
- lumbosacral strain, bulging disc with discectomy, radiculopathy, severe spinal stenosis at L5-S1
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 60%
- Decision date
- December 22, 2005
- Citation
- 0534496
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