Partly granted
The veteran is granted a separate evaluation for nerve damage at 10 percent. The request for an increased disability evaluation and other issues are remanded.
The deciding factor: The Board found that the Veteran's right thigh nerve pain symptoms more closely approximate severe, incomplete paralysis of the external cutaneous nerve and that a separate 10 percent rating is warranted under DC 8529.
- Claimed conditions
- nerve damage gunshot wound residuals, external cutaneous nerve, right thigh
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- January 8, 2025
- Citation
- A25001978
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