The Board has determined that the veteran's service-connected lumbar laminectomy warrants a disability rating of 40 percent, effective from the date of the claim.
The deciding factor: The VA examination and medical records showed severe limitation of motion without ankylosis or neurological deficits, which supported a 40 percent rating under the general rating formula for diseases and injuries of the spine.
- Claimed conditions
- lumbar laminectomy
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 40%
- Decision date
- April 26, 2006
- Citation
- 0611988
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What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
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