The Veteran's trigger finger, residuals injury right ring finger is currently rated at 10 percent and a higher rating of 20 percent requires amputation with metacarpal resection. The evidence does not show such an amputation.
The deciding factor: There has been no amputation or metacarpal resection that would warrant a higher than 10 percent rating for the Veteran's trigger finger condition.
- Claimed conditions
- trigger finger
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- September 23, 2019
- Citation
- 19173713
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