The Veteran's service-connected disabilities do not prevent him from obtaining and maintaining substantially gainful employment.
The deciding factor: A VA examiner concluded that the Veteran is able to maintain gainful sedentary employment despite his orthopedic disabilities, including osteoarthritis of the hips, knees, and lumbar spine.
- Claimed conditions
- shell fragment wound, left scapular area and back with retained fragments and injuries, degenerative disc disease of the lumbar spine, shell fragment wound of the right arm and shoulder with retained shell fragments, injury moderate, Muscle Group VI, osteoarthritis of the right hip, osteoarthritis of the left hip, patellofemoral arthritic changes of the right knee, patellofemoral arthritic changes of the left knee
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 70%
- Decision date
- August 10, 2010
- Citation
- 1029868
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What this means for you
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