The Board has determined that the veteran's radiculopathy affecting the right lower extremity warrants a rating of 20 percent, and service connection for his right hip disability is denied as not proximately due to or the result of service-connected disability.
The deciding factor: The evidence does not support an evaluation in excess of 20 percent for radiculopathy affecting the right lower extremity. The veteran's neurological impairment more nearly approximates moderate incomplete paralysis of the sciatic nerve than moderately severe incomplete paralysis, warranting a 20 percent rating under Diagnostic Code 8520.
- Claimed conditions
- radiculopathy affecting the right lower extremity, right hip disability
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 20%
- Decision date
- May 2, 2006
- Citation
- 0612675
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