The veteran's service-connected low back disorder, standing alone, is of such severity as to effectively preclude all forms of substantially gainful employment.
The deciding factor: The severe limitation of spinal motion and function rendered the veteran unemployable under German law, despite attempts at rehabilitation.
- Claimed conditions
- Chronic low back disorder (status post ventral dorsal respondylosis L3 to S1 on the basis of a pseudoarthritis, status post posterior-lumbar intercorporal fusion L3 to S1, with left convex lumbar scoliosis)
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- April 7, 2008
- Citation
- 0811413
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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