The Board has granted an effective date of November 8, 1954 for the grant of service connection for a left wrist disability. The veteran's claim for a higher initial rating for his left wrist disability is denied.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence does not show the presence of ankylosis, which would be required to justify a 20 percent disability evaluation under Diagnostic Code 5214.
- Claimed conditions
- Traumatic arthritis of the left wrist with non-united scaphoid bone
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- August 7, 2006
- Citation
- 0623732
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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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