The Veteran's service-connected right forearm injury, status post surgical repair, results in significant interference with his employment as a barber. However, the evidence does not demonstrate that this disability picture is so exceptional or unusual as to render impractical the application of the regular schedular standards.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's service-connected right forearm injury significantly interferes with his ability to work as a barber due to pain and stiffness, but the evidence does not support an extraschedular rating in excess of 30 percent.
- Claimed conditions
- Right forearm injury
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- July 13, 2011
- Citation
- 1126435
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What this means for you
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What you can do next
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- Whole decision: Denied
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- Whole decision: Remanded (sent back)
The Board has dismissed the issue of service connection for a right forearm or elbow disability due to prior grant in May 1997. The rating for right hallux valgus is denied, and the issue of compensable rating for right elbow injury residuals since February 21, 2015 is remanded.
- Whole decision: Granted
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- Whole decision: Partly granted
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