The Board has determined that the Veteran's service-connected lower back disability warrants a rating of 20 percent, effective from the date of his claim. The Veteran is also granted an additional 10 percent rating for sciatica of the right lower extremity.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence does not show incapacitating episodes or favorable ankylosis of the thoracolumbar spine that would warrant higher ratings under the General Rating Formula for Diseases and Injuries of the Spine. However, there is objective evidence of sciatica with associated neurological impairment, which warrants a separate 10 percent rating.
- Claimed conditions
- lower back disability, sciatica of the right lower extremity
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 20%
- Decision date
- August 27, 2010
- Citation
- 1032271
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