Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claim for an initial rating higher than 10 percent for right lower extremity sciatic nerve radiculopathy due to a pre-decisional duty to assist error in failing to provide the Veteran an adequate VA examination.
The deciding factor: The evidence is insufficient to decide the claim at this time, as it does not address whether the Veteran's complaint of his foot scraping the ground was evidence that he had motor and/or reflex impairment or atrophy due to his right lower extremity sciatic nerve radiculopathy.
- Claimed conditions
- right lower extremity sciatic nerve radiculopathy
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 7, 2025
- Citation
- A25011752
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