The Veteran's residuals of a cerebral concussion do not meet the criteria for a rating in excess of 10 percent.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's cognitive impairment does not result in severe functional impairment, which is required for a higher rating under the new criteria.
- Claimed conditions
- cerebral concussion
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- November 23, 2009
- Citation
- 0944532
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- Denied
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- Partly granted
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- Denied
The Board has determined that the Veteran does not have any current disability that is a residual of a cerebral concussion/TBI in service, and therefore, service connection for residuals of a cerebral concussion/TBI is denied.
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