The Board granted a 20 percent disability rating for the veteran's back disability, service connection for left leg radiculopathy as secondary to the back disability, and a 10 percent disability rating for recurrent acute sinusitis.
The deciding factor: The evidence supports that the Veteran's left leg radiculopathy is proximately due to his service-connected back disability, and his sinusitis meets the criteria for a 10 percent rating based on three or more incapacitating episodes per year requiring prolonged antibiotic treatment.
- Claimed conditions
- lumbosacral spine strain with degenerative arthritis, left leg radiculopathy (secondary to back disability), recurrent acute sinusitis
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 20%
- Decision date
- June 24, 2025
- Citation
- A25054540
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 793 · Granted: 28% (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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Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Granted
The Board granted an earlier effective date of October 21, 2021, for the grant of service connection for headaches and recurrent acute sinusitis.
- Granted
Effective dates of June 6, 2014, and no earlier, have been granted for service connection for lumbosacral spine strain with degenerative arthritis, cervical spine strain, degenerative arthritis, and intervertebral disc syndrome, and PTSD.
- Dismissed
The Board has dismissed the appeals for bilateral hearing loss, left and right dry eye syndrome, recurrent acute sinusitis, retina deposits (right eye), left foot plantar fasciitis, left lower extremity radiculopathy, and right lower extremity radiculopathy. The Veteran's service connection claims for these conditions are granted.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded several issues related to the Veteran's service-connected disabilities, including ratings for various conditions and claims of secondary service connection. The decision also notes that there are outstanding VA treatment records which need to be obtained.
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