The Board has granted service connection for peripheral neuropathy of the lower extremities as secondary to the veteran's service-connected lumbar spine disability and has also granted a 20 percent rating for his service-connected lumbar spine disability.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence supports the grant of service connection for peripheral neuropathy as secondary to the veteran's service-connected lumbar spine disability, and the Board has assigned a 20 percent rating based on the combined range of motion being less than 120 degrees due to pain and functional loss.
- Claimed conditions
- Degenerative Disc Disease of Lumbar Spine with Status Post Laminectomy at L4-L5, Peripheral Neuropathy of Lower Extremities
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 20%
- Decision date
- December 21, 2007
- Citation
- 0740293
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