The Board granted a disability rating of 30 percent for left upper extremity weakness, residual of cryptogenic stroke.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's symptoms and severity are consistent with moderate incomplete paralysis, warranting a 30 percent rating.
- Claimed conditions
- left upper extremity weakness, residual of cryptogenic stroke
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 30%
- Decision date
- April 14, 2025
- Citation
- A25034159
What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
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The Board denied increased ratings for various conditions but granted a 30 percent rating for left and right upper extremity weakness prior to November 13, 2024, and an earlier effective date of August 27, 2010, for total disability based on individual unemployability.
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- Partly granted
The Board granted earlier effective dates for the award of service connection for various conditions associated with inclusion body myositis (IBM) and denied increased ratings for some of these conditions, while remanding others.
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The Board granted a temporary 100 percent rating for hemorrhagic stroke from March 3, 2021, to July 20, 2021, and increased the ratings for left lower extremity weakness and left upper extremity weakness.
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