The Veteran is permanently and totally disabled due to service-connected disabilities, including her left hip and spine conditions, which together with the residuals of her organic injuries so affect her balance that she cannot locomote without a cane or walker. The criteria for specially adapted housing assistance have been met.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's service-connected disabilities (left hip arthroplasty, lumbar spine stenosis, cervical spine fusion) and their associated residuals result in the loss of use of one lower extremity, affecting her balance such that she requires a cane or walker for locomotion.
- Claimed conditions
- status post total left hip arthroplasty, lumbar spine stenosis, status post fusion, cervical spine for cord compression, residuals of an oophorectomy, fracture of the right ankle with degenerative joint disease and limitation of motion, degenerative joint disease of the left knee with limitation of motion, degenerative joint disease of the right knee with limitation of motion, residuals of a fracture of the right hip with degenerative joint disease, right ear hearing loss, sinusitis, reactive airway disease
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- June 15, 2010
- Citation
- 1022090
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- Dismissed
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