The Veteran's service-connected disabilities are being remanded for further evaluation to determine if they meet the criteria for specially adapted housing or a special home adaptation grant.

The deciding factor: The Board finds that there is insufficient evidence to determine whether the Veteran’s service-connected disabilities alone result in loss of use of both lower extremities, loss of use of one lower extremity together with loss of use of one upper extremity affecting balance and propulsion, or full thickness burns resulting in contractures with limitation of motion.

Claimed conditions

posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), left leg below knee amputation, right foot status post shell fragment wound with scar, status post shell fragment wounds of the right forearm and elbow with limited motion of the wrist and thumb, right leg shrapnel injury with limitation of flexion of right knee, status post shell fragment wounds of the right hip and buttocks, and impairment of right hip with limitation of extension and flexion, history of osteomyelitis of both feet, scars of left thigh and knee, status post superficial shell fragment wounds

How they argued it

Direct service connection

Exposure basis

None

Rating assigned

None in this decision

Decision date

June 27, 2019

Citation

19150458

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