The Veteran's service-connected disabilities, including adjustment disorder with mixed anxiety and depressed mood, rectal incontinence associated with scleroderma, calcinosis of the fingers associated with scleroderma with Raynaud's phenomenon, limitation of motion of left ankle due to scleroderma with Raynaud's phenomenon, left carpal tunnel syndrome (nondominant extremity) due to scleroderma with Raynaud's phenomenon, right knee synovitis, status post arthroscopy, flatfoot with left foot pain due to scleroderma with Raynaud's phenomenon, flatfoot with right foot pain due to scleroderma with Raynaud's phenomenon, hiatal hernia with gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), and right carpal tunnel syndrome (dominant extremity) due to scleroderma with Raynaud's phenomenon, are of such severity as to preclude her from engaging in substantially gainful employment.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's service-connected disabilities alone are of such severity as to preclude her from engaging in substantially gainful employment.
- Claimed conditions
- Adjustment Disorder with Mixed Anxiety and Depressed Mood, Rectal Incontinence associated with Scleroderma, Calcinosis of the Fingers associated with Scleroderma with Raynaud's Phenomenon, Limitation of Motion of Left Ankle due to Scleroderma with Raynaud's Phenomenon, Left Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (Nondominant Extremity) due to Scleroderma with Raynaud's Phenomenon, Right Knee Synovitis, Status Post Arthroscopy, Limitation of the Right Ankle due to Scleroderma with Raynaud's Phenomenon, Flatfoot with Left Foot Pain due to Scleroderma with Raynaud's Phenomenon, Flatfoot with Right Foot Pain due to Scleroderma with Raynaud's Phenomenon, Hiatal Hernia with Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD), Right Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (Dominant Extremity) due to Scleroderma with Raynaud's Phenomenon
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 90%
- Decision date
- December 27, 2010
- Citation
- 1047943
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