The Board granted a rating of 40 percent for radiculopathy of the left lower extremity (sciatic nerve) but denied service connection and increased ratings for other conditions.
The deciding factor: The evidence did not support a current diagnosis of asthma, characteristic prostrating attacks for headaches, or severe economic inadaptability due to the Veteran's conditions.
- Claimed conditions
- paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia, asthma with bronchospasm, common headaches, radiculopathy of the left lower extremity (sciatic nerve), allergic sinusitis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 27, 2025
- Citation
- A25028543
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 831 · Granted: 48% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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What this means for you
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- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the claims for service connection for GERD and common headaches due to pre-decisional duty to assist errors. The Veteran's current diagnoses of GERD and chronic sinusitis are in dispute, and a VA medical opinion is needed to determine if these conditions are related to her active service or service-connected conditions.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran's claims for increased ratings and effective dates are being remanded due to the need for additional VA treatment records, including those from the Miami VAMC and scanned into VistA.
- Denied
The Veteran's lumbar strain with sacroiliac sprain was granted a 40 percent rating effective November 5, 2023.,Service connection for radiculopathy of the left and right lower extremities (sciatic nerve) was also granted effective November 5, 2023.
- Dismissed
The appeal for an initial compensable rating for common headaches was dismissed due to a procedural defect, and the claim for a compensable rating for Covid 19 residuals with loss of the sense of taste/hypogeusia was denied as the Veteran's condition only showed partial loss of taste.
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