The Board has granted a 50 percent evaluation for the service-connected right (major) plexus neuropathy, finding that it more nearly approximates moderate to severe incomplete paralysis.
The deciding factor: The disability picture in this case is of a right upper extremity neurological disorder that is more than moderately disabling but less than severely disabling in degree, given the combination of subjective complaints and objective findings.
- Claimed conditions
- right upper extremity disability
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 50%
- Decision date
- May 17, 2006
- Citation
- 0614431
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