The Veteran's service-connected right CTS, status post carpal tunnel release with residual pain and mild weakness, has been rated as noncompensable from July 1, 2005 to September 13, 2006. From November 1, 2006, he is now rated as 10 percent disabling.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's right CTS resulted in mild incomplete paralysis of the median nerve with pain on motion and weakness, but not severe enough to warrant a higher rating.
- Claimed conditions
- Right CTS (Carpal Tunnel Syndrome)
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- February 5, 2013
- Citation
- 1304055
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- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the Veteran's claims for service connection due to incomplete records and need for further examinations. The issues of right elbow disability, right carpal tunnel syndrome, and acquired psychiatric disorder are being reviewed.
- Granted
The Veteran's right CTS was granted a 20 percent rating from December 15, 2006 to September 3, 2015.,The Veteran's right CTS was granted a 40 percent rating starting from September 3, 2015.
- Granted
The Board found that the termination of the TDIU rating from February 1, 2004 was proper due to the Veteran's actual employability at that time.
- Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claims for increased ratings for his service-connected lumbar myositis, psychoneurosis and conversion hysteria, residuals of shrapnel wounds of the left thigh and pelvis with retained foreign bodies and scars, and residuals of shell fragment wounds of the right thigh and left leg. The veteran was also denied entitlement to a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities.
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