The Veteran is permanently and totally disabled due to service-connected disabilities resulting in loss of use of both lower extremities, which qualifies him for specially adapted housing.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's service-connected disabilities (low back strain with degenerative disc disease, adjustment disorder with mixed anxiety and depressed mood, right bundle branch block with supraventricular tachycardia, left knee status post complete rupture, laxity, and limited flexion, right and left lower extremity radiculopathy, right hip strain, and erectile dysfunction) combine to cause a loss of use of both lower extremities that precludes locomotion without the aid of braces, crutches, canes, or a wheelchair.
- Claimed conditions
- low back strain with degenerative disc disease, adjustment disorder with mixed anxiety and depressed mood, right bundle branch block with supraventricular tachycardia, left knee status post complete rupture, laxity, and limited flexion, right and left lower extremity radiculopathy, right hip strain, erectile dysfunction
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- June 18, 2019
- Citation
- 19147555
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