Board of Veterans’ Appeals decision 1024922
The deciding factor: The objective medical evidence demonstrated that the Veteran's service-connected residuals of a shrapnel fragment wound to the muscles of the left thigh were manifested by pain, weakness, burning sensation, and numbness, with giveaway weakness at all groups in the left lower extremity. Muscle strength was 4 out of 5 for the left lower extremity for all groups in February 2003.
- Claimed conditions
- Muscle injury of the left thigh
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- July 2, 2010
- Citation
- 1024922
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