The Veteran's service-connected disabilities, including DDD of the lumbosacral spine and coronary artery disease, preclude him from obtaining or maintaining substantially gainful employment.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's service-connected disabilities render him unable to perform sedentary employment due to severe pain and functional impairments in all ranges of motion, particularly his lumbar spine impairment and bilateral radiculopathies.
- Claimed conditions
- Degenerative disc disease (DDD), lumbosacral spine status post laminectomies with right nerve impingement, Right lower extremity radiculopathy (RLER), Left lower extremity radiculopathy (LLER), Coronary artery disease (CAD), Tender scar of the lumbar spine
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 70%
- Decision date
- January 5, 2018
- Citation
- 1800586
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