The Board has denied the Veteran's claim for separate ratings for bilateral femoral and sciatic neuralgia and neuritis as they are considered to be duplicative of the already assigned disability ratings for his lumbar radiculopathy.
The deciding factor: Separate ratings for neuralgia and neuritis would constitute impermissible pyramiding of compensation by compensating for the same overlapping symptoms and functional impairment due to pain, paresthesia/dysesthesia, and numbness.
- Claimed conditions
- Bilateral Lumbar Radiculopathy
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- January 12, 2026
- Citation
- A26002762
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