The Board has granted service connection for the Veteran's right lower extremity radiculopathy affecting the femoral nerve as secondary to his service-connected lumbosacral strain and degenerative disc disease.
The deciding factor: The evidence supports a finding that the Veteran's current right lower extremity radiculopathy is proximately due to or the result of his service-connected back disability.
- Claimed conditions
- right lower extremity radiculopathy affecting the femoral nerve
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- January 8, 2026
- Citation
- A26002140
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Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Granted
The Veteran was granted a TDIU for the period from January 1, 2020 to September 30, 2023 due to service-connected disabilities preventing him from maintaining substantially gainful employment.
- Denied
The Board denied an earlier effective date for the grant of service connection for the Veteran's disabilities and ancillary compensation benefits, finding that August 8, 2023, was correctly assigned as the effective date.
- Partly granted
The Board granted service connection for hypertension under the PACT Act and increased ratings for bilateral lower extremity radiculopathy.
- Partly granted
The Board granted ratings of 30 percent and 60 percent for the Veteran's right and left lower extremity radiculopathy affecting both femoral and sciatic nerves, respectively, effective December 19, 2023.
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