The veteran's service-connected degenerative disc disease of the lumbosacral spine and sacroiliitis is rated at 40 percent, and service connection for sciatica of the left lower extremity was granted.
The deciding factor: The limitation in motion to 30 degrees forward flexion supports a 40 percent evaluation under the General Rating Formula for Diseases and Injuries of the Spine. The veteran's sciatica of the left lower extremity is found to be etiologically related to his service-connected degenerative disc disease.
- Claimed conditions
- sciatica of the left lower extremity, degenerative disc disease of the lumbosacral spine and sacroiliitis, sciatica of the right lower extremity
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 40%
- Decision date
- April 3, 2008
- Citation
- 0811087
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Decisions by this judge: 684 · Granted: 25% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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- Remanded (sent back)
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- Granted
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