The Board has granted a 20 percent disability rating for the Veteran's back disability, effective from August 21, 2019. The left leg radiculopathy is rated at 10 percent and remains unchanged.
The deciding factor: The VA examinations conducted in August 2019 provided sufficient information to rate the Veteran’s disabilities under all applicable rating criteria, including range of motion studies that considered his complaints of pain with and without weight bearing and resistance in passive and active range of motion as well as during flare-ups.
- Claimed conditions
- Back disability (lumbosacral radiculitis), Left leg radiculopathy
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 20%
- Decision date
- November 19, 2019
- Citation
- 19186920
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