Partly granted
The Board granted a disability rating of 40 percent for the right lower extremity sciatica and denied higher ratings for both left and right lower extremities, as well as service connection for incomplete paralysis of the right external popliteal nerve and TDIU.
The deciding factor: The evidence was at least in equipoise regarding the severity of the right lower extremity symptoms, but not for the left. Service connection was granted based on a direct link to the service-connected degenerative disc disease.
- Claimed conditions
- sciatica of the left lower extremity, sciatica of the right lower extremity, incomplete paralysis of the right external popliteal (common peroneal nerve)
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 29, 2025
- Citation
- 25013414
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