The Board denied the veteran's claim of entitlement to an increased disability rating for his service-connected degenerative arthritis of the lumbar spine, finding that the evidence did not show that the service-connected disability was so exceptional or unusual as to require referral for extraschedular consideration.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence does not demonstrate that the veteran's service-connected lumbar spine disability is more severe than contemplated by the current 20 percent rating.
- Claimed conditions
- degenerative arthritis of the lumbar spine
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 20%
- Decision date
- May 8, 2006
- Citation
- 0613361
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