The Board granted an initial 60 percent rating for right lower extremity lumbar radiculopathy, sciatic nerve and entitlement to TDIU due to service-connected disabilities.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's disability was found to be more analogous to severe incomplete paralysis with foot drop, active movement of the muscles below the knee, and no muscular atrophy. The Board also found that his service-connected disabilities precluded him from performing gainful employment for which his education and occupational experience otherwise qualify him.
- Claimed conditions
- right lower extremity lumbar radiculopathy, sciatic nerve
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 60%
- Decision date
- November 19, 2025
- Citation
- A25100434
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Decisions by this judge: 1,963 · Granted: 32% (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
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.
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- Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claims for earlier effective dates and higher ratings for his service-connected conditions, finding no evidence that supported a rating in excess of 10 percent prior to March 9, 2016, or 20 percent from that date.
- Partly granted
The Board granted a 40 percent rating for left and right lower extremity lumbar radiculopathy, sciatic nerve, but remanded an increased rating higher than 20 percent for cervical strain.
- Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's claims for earlier effective dates for service connection of left and right lower extremity lumbar radiculopathy, sciatic nerve due to lack of evidence showing these conditions prior to May 13, 2021.
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