The Board has determined that a 40 percent disability evaluation, but no higher, is warranted for the service-connected degenerative disc disease of the lumbar spine throughout the appeal period.
The deciding factor: The veteran's range of motion of the lumbar spine more nearly approximated 30 degrees or less of forward flexion, one of the criteria which, when satisfied, warrants a 40 percent rating.
- Claimed conditions
- lumbar degenerative disc disease with radiculopathy
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 40%
- Decision date
- July 28, 2006
- Citation
- 0622451
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