The veteran's left upper extremity disability, with radial nerve impairment, is currently rated at 20 percent and the claim for a higher rating is denied.
The deciding factor: The evidence does not support a higher rating as the symptoms do not meet the criteria for more severe incomplete paralysis or ankylosis/hyperpronation/fixed in supination of the wrist/thumb.
- Claimed conditions
- left upper extremity disability, radial nerve impairment
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 20%
- Decision date
- May 16, 2006
- Citation
- 0614309
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What this means for you
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