The Board has granted service connection for right ear hearing loss, left knee disorder, and sinusitis with rhinitis. The initial compensable rating for residuals of left middle finger hyperextension remains unchanged.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence does not support the assignment of a higher evaluation as there is no ankylosis or functional impairment that would warrant such a rating.
- Claimed conditions
- Left middle finger hyperextension
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 0%
- Decision date
- June 10, 2016
- Citation
- 1623389
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