The Board granted a 20 percent rating for the service-connected right femur disability effective from June 29, 2011. The claim for an earlier effective date for radiculopathy was also granted.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's right femur disability met the criteria for a 20 percent rating under DC 5255 due to limitation of motion and functional loss.
- Claimed conditions
- Right Femur Disability
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- February 28, 2018
- Citation
- 1812535
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What this means for you
A grant means the Board allowed the benefit or issue identified in this decision. Review the original order: other issues in the same appeal may have a different outcome, and this decision does not predict another claim.
What you can do next
Use your own notice and decision stage. A remanded issue is not a final court-appealable denial. VA review guidance and CAVC filing instructions (U.S. federal; reviewed October 7, 2026).
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Whole decision: Remanded (sent back)
The Board has dismissed motions seeking revision of prior rating decisions for service connection and evaluation of various conditions. The case is REMANDED to schedule the Veteran for a VA examination to determine the current severity of his scar disability.
- Whole decision: Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claims for increased ratings for his right femur disability and right knee scar, finding that the evidence did not support a higher rating than the current 30 percent assigned for the right femur disability or the 10 percent assigned for the right knee scar.
- Whole decision: Denied
The Board has determined that the veteran's right femur disability does not warrant an increased rating beyond the current 10 percent evaluation.
- Whole decision: 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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