The Veteran is granted a separate 10 percent rating for right lower extremity radiculopathy from May 25, 2007. The issue of service connection for headaches secondary to low back disorder was reasonably raised by the record and referred to the AOJ.
The deciding factor: Right lower extremity radiculopathy is found to be at least as likely as not related to the Veteran's service-connected lumbosacral spine disability, warranting a separate rating from May 25, 2007.
- Claimed conditions
- Degenerative Joint Disease of the Lumbosacral Spine, Radiculopathy of the Right Lower Extremity
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- October 21, 2019
- Citation
- 19179718
What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
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