The Veteran was granted a 40 percent rating for her sacroiliitis, effective November 23, 2010, and service connection for right and left lower extremity radiculopathy of the sciatic nerve as secondary to her service-connected sacroiliitis.
The deciding factor: The Board resolved reasonable doubt in favor of the Veteran regarding the severity of her sacroiliitis and its impact on her lumbar spine, leading to a 40 percent rating. The right and left lower extremity radiculopathy were also found to be secondary to the service-connected sacroiliitis.
- Claimed conditions
- sacroiliitis, right lower extremity radiculopathy of the sciatic nerve, left lower extremity radicopathy of the sciatic nerve
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 40%
- Decision date
- October 16, 2025
- Citation
- A25089180
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Decisions by this judge: 899 · Granted: 45% (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.
What you can do next
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- Remanded (sent back)
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