The Veteran's bilateral lower extremity femoral and sciatic nerve disabilities are granted separate compensable ratings from January 25, 2012, to September 6, 2018. Ratings in excess of these ratings are denied.
The deciding factor: The VA examiners found the Veteran's adverse symptomatology due to his service-connected sciatic nerve disabilities rather than femoral nerve disabilities.
- Claimed conditions
- Femoral Nerve Disability, Sciatic Nerve Disability
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- January 6, 2022
- Citation
- 22000742
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 3,319 · Granted: 25% (granted or partly granted, in the indexed decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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