The Board denied the veteran's claim for a higher rating for chronic costochondritis, finding that her symptoms more closely align with a moderate disability rather than a moderately severe or severe one.
The deciding factor: The evidence did not show that the Veteran's chronic costochondritis resulted in an inability to keep up with work requirements.
- Claimed conditions
- chronic costochondritis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 10, 2025
- Citation
- A25002285
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 2,050 · Granted: 32% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Partly granted
The Board granted service connection for chronic costochondritis and tinnitus, but remanded the claim for sleep apnea.
- Partly granted
The Board denied a rating in excess of 20 percent for chronic costochondritis and remanded the issue of entitlement to a rating in excess of 30 percent for gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) with antral gastritis from November 8, 2016.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the issues of entitlement to an initial rating in excess of 20 percent for chronic costochondritis and a rating in excess of 30 percent from November 8, 2016, for gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) with antral gastritis for further development.
- Granted
Service connection for chronic costochondritis is granted, and a 50 percent rating for tension headaches since December 9, 2019 is also granted.,A 20 percent rating for left ankle lateral collateral ligament sprain since November 2, 2020 is granted. The issue of a compensable rating (greater than 0 percent) for right ear hearing loss since November 2, 2020 is remanded.
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