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
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.
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- Denied
The Board has denied the Veteran's claim for service connection for right shoulder strain as there is no evidence of a chronic condition in service or within one year after discharge, and the medical opinion found that his current condition is not related to his military service.
- Partly granted
The Veteran's hypertension, left shoulder strain, and right shoulder disability are all granted as service-connected.,The Veteran is also remanded for a rating in excess of 10 percent for degenerative arthritis of the spine and for service connection for sleep apnea.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has decided to remand the case due to insufficient medical opinions and a need for additional examination.
- Granted
The Veteran's service-connected disabilities rendered him unable to secure or follow a substantially gainful occupation, and the Board has granted entitlement to total disability based on individual unemployability.
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