Granted
The Board granted an effective date of January 22, 2021, for the assignment of a 40 percent evaluation for service-connected lumbosacral strain with degenerative arthritis and for the award of service connection sciatica of the left lower extremity.
The deciding factor: The evidence established a factually ascertainable increase in the severity of the Veteran's lumbosacral strain with degenerative arthritis on January 22, 2021, and his sciatica of the left lower extremity first manifested on that date.
- Claimed conditions
- lumbosacral strain with degenerative arthritis, sciatica of the left lower extremity
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 40%
- Decision date
- October 1, 2025
- Citation
- A25084698
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