The Veteran is unemployable as a result of his service-connected disabilities, specifically the bilateral lower extremities.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's service-connected disabilities render him unable to secure and maintain substantially gainful employment due to pain and swelling in his left lower extremity caused by reflex sympathetic dystrophy.
- Claimed conditions
- residuals of right knee injury with patellectomy, left leg disorder with degenerative joint disease, deep vein thrombosis of the left leg, reflex sympathetic dystrophy of the left lower extremity, residuals of left clavicle fracture, residuals of right pubic bone fracture
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 70%
- Decision date
- November 9, 2017
- Citation
- 1751485
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