The Veteran's service-connected diabetic neuropathy in both lower extremities is rated at 30 percent, reflecting severe incomplete paralysis of the external popliteal nerve (common peroneal).
The deciding factor: The clinical evidence shows absent ankle and pedal reflexes and subjective complaints of numbness, tingling, and pain in the lower extremities, which are indicative of severe incomplete paralysis.
- Claimed conditions
- status post osteochondroma, left knee with traumatic arthritis, diabetic neuropathy left lower extremity, diabetic neuropathy right lower extremity
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 30%
- Decision date
- September 28, 2009
- Citation
- 0936592
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