The Veteran's right sciatica is currently rated as 10 percent disabling, and the Board has determined that a higher rating of 20 percent is warranted.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence shows moderate incomplete paralysis of the right sciatic nerve, which warrants a 20 percent rating under Diagnostic Code 8520.
- Claimed conditions
- Right Sciatica
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 20%
- Decision date
- September 18, 2009
- Citation
- 0935136
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