The claim for service connection for lumbar spine stenosis with radiculopathy was reopened, and a rating of 30 percent was assigned for the left ankle disability.
The deciding factor: The new evidence provided a reasonable possibility of substantiating the claim for service connection for lumbar spine stenosis with radiculopathy as secondary to the service-connected left ankle disability.
- Claimed conditions
- lumbar spine stenosis with radiculopathy, left ankle post-traumatic arthritis
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 30%
- Decision date
- February 25, 2009
- Citation
- 0906893
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Decisions by this judge: 1,599 · Granted: 37% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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