The Board granted service connection for the veteran's postoperative left shoulder disability and assigned a 10 percent rating, effective from August 29, 2002.
The deciding factor: The evidence showed that the veteran had residual pain and tenderness in his surgical scar but no limitation of motion or other functional impairment. The Board found these symptoms warranted a 10 percent rating under both old and revised criteria for scars.
- Claimed conditions
- Postoperative left shoulder disability
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- July 19, 2006
- Citation
- 0621177
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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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