The Veteran's service-connected chronic left shoulder disability is currently rated at 20 percent, and the Board found that it does not meet the criteria for an evaluation in excess of this rating.
The deciding factor: The evidence did not show motion of the left arm (abduction) limited to 25 degrees from the side, which would warrant a higher evaluation.
- Claimed conditions
- Left Shoulder Impingement Syndrome, Chronic Left Shoulder Disability
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 20%
- Decision date
- February 24, 2010
- Citation
- 1006765
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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.
What you can do next
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- Denied
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- Granted
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- Remanded (sent back)
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