The Veteran's lumbar arthritis is rated at 10 percent, but the Board has granted a rating of 20 percent effective from the date of the decision.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner found that the Veteran’s symptoms more nearly approximated forward flexion between 30 and 60 degrees during flare-ups, which meets the criteria for a 20 percent rating under the General Rating Formula for Diseases and Injuries of the Spine.
- Claimed conditions
- lumbar arthritis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 20%
- Decision date
- October 31, 2019
- Citation
- 19182601
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.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Partly granted
The veteran is granted TDIU from January 11, 2019, to January 10, 2021, but the appeal for TDIU from January 11, 2021, is dismissed as moot.
- Denied
The Board denied the claim for service connection for a lumbar spine disability, diagnosed as lumbar strain, lumbar arthritis, and lumbar degenerative disc disease (DDD), based on the lack of evidence showing chronic in-service symptoms or continuous post-service symptoms.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the Veteran's claims for increased ratings due to new evidence of worsening symptoms since his last VA examinations.
- Denied
The Board finds that the preponderance of evidence is against finding that the veteran sustained lumbosacral fractures while in military service, and lumbar arthritis was not compensably disabling within one year of his separation from active duty. Therefore, residuals of lumbosacral fractures were not incurred in or aggravated by military service.
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