The Board granted an initial rating of 40 percent from August 29, 2019, for left lower extremity sciatic neuritis and radiculopathy, and a 40 percent rating from May 7, 2012, for left lower extremity femoral radiculopathy.
The deciding factor: The evidence supported the severity of the Veteran's symptoms as corresponding to a 40 percent rating under the applicable diagnostic codes.
- Claimed conditions
- left lower extremity sciatic neuritis and radiculopathy, left lower extremity femoral radiculopathy
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 40%
- Decision date
- May 21, 2025
- Citation
- 25006948
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 1,044 · Granted: 21% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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- Granted
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