The Veteran meets the basic eligibility requirements for assistance in acquiring specially adaptive housing due to his service-connected disabilities that have essentially commensurate with loss of use of both lower extremities.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's service-connected disabilities, which include lumbosacral spine discogenic disease with cauda equina syndrome and partial fecal incontinence, are productive of permanent and total disability such as to preclude locomotion without the aid of a wheelchair.
- Claimed conditions
- lumbosacral spine discogenic disease with cauda equina syndrome, partial fecal incontinence, complete urinary incontinence, cervical spine disorder with radiculopathy, right shoulder strain, left shoulder strain, right leg neuropathy, left leg neuropathy, right tibial stress fracture residuals, left tibial stress fracture residuals
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- July 6, 2010
- Citation
- 1024987
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What this means for you
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The Board remands the claims for service connection for chronic sinusitis, left shoulder strain, lumbosacral strain, and radiculopathy of the right lower extremity to ensure compliance with its previous remand directives.
- Remanded (sent back)
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