The Veteran's surgery for his service-connected right hand trigger finger disability required convalescence of at least one month, and the Board has granted a temporary total evaluation based on this.
The deciding factor: The surgery necessitated at least one month of convalescence as per VA regulations.
- Claimed conditions
- right hand trigger finger
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- August 4, 2017
- Citation
- 1731337
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