The Board granted a 50 percent evaluation for the service-connected back disability, effective from November 1990. The rating for PTSD was denied.
The deciding factor: The veteran's lumbar spine condition did not meet criteria warranting a higher schedular evaluation under the old regulations due to lack of cord involvement or abnormal mobility requiring a neck brace.
- Claimed conditions
- post-traumatic degenerative disc disease of the lumbar spine
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 50%
- Decision date
- December 29, 2006
- Citation
- 0640255
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 2,642 · Granted: 19% (granted or partly granted, in the indexed decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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What this means for you
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Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Granted
The Board granted a rating of 50 percent for the service-connected post-traumatic degenerative disc disease of the lumbar spine, effective as of October 6, 2004.
- Granted
The veteran's post-traumatic degenerative disc disease of the lumbar spine, with a demonstrable deformity of a vertebral body, is now rated at 20 percent.
- Granted
The Board has granted a 50 percent evaluation for the service-connected back disability and denied an increased rating for post-traumatic stress disorder.
- Granted
The Board granted an increased rating of 30 percent for the service-connected back disability, effective October 6, 1990.
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