The Board granted a 60 percent disability rating for prostate cancer residuals/neurogenic bladder from July 12, 2018, to January 29, 2024, and denied a higher rating. The issues of service connection for fecal incontinence, right upper extremity tendonitis, left upper extremity tendonitis, right lower extremity tendonitis, and left lower extremity tendonitis were remanded.
The deciding factor: The decision was based on the severity of voiding dysfunction requiring absorbent materials changed more than four times per day from July 12, 2018, to January 29, 2024, but no local reoccurrence or metastasis was found for a higher rating.
- Claimed conditions
- fecal (bowel) incontinence/encopresis, left lower extremity tendonitis, left upper extremity tendonitis, prostate cancer residuals/neurogenic bladder, right lower extremity tendonitis, right upper extremity tendonitis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 60%
- Decision date
- February 4, 2025
- Citation
- 25001673
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 3,217 · Granted: 46% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remanded the veteran's claims for service connection for right knee disability, left lower extremity tendonitis, and right lower extremity tendonitis. The Veteran will undergo VA examinations to determine the nature and etiology of these conditions.
- Granted
The Board has granted service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder (recurrent depressive disorder and unspecified anxiety disorder) and a right lower extremity disorder (right lower extremity tendonitis, well healed distal fibula injury with mild irregularity seen on X-ray, Achilles tendinopathy).
- Dismissed
The Veteran's appeal has been withdrawn due to his request in a letter dated April 2017.
- Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claims for increased ratings for his service-connected lumbar myositis, psychoneurosis and conversion hysteria, residuals of shrapnel wounds of the left thigh and pelvis with retained foreign bodies and scars, and residuals of shell fragment wounds of the right thigh and left leg. The veteran was also denied entitlement to a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities.
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