AF | PDBR | CY2013 | PD-2013-01155
No other conditions were submitted by the MEB.The Informal PEB (IPEB) adjudicated “sural nerve entrapment syndrome, left intractable”as unfitting, rated 20%, with likely application of theVA Schedule for Rating Disabilities (VASRD).The CI appealed to the Formal PEB (FPEB) with a petition to include the ankle scar and loss of tongue sensation. RATING COMPARISON : Service IPEB – Dated 20030926VA -based on Service Treatment Records(STR)ConditionCodeRatingConditionCodeRatingExam Sural Nerve...
AF | PDBR | CY2009 | PD2009-00281
The VA rated it using the code for ankle, limited range-of-motion (ROM) and rated the nerve condition separately as well. The Left Sural Nerve Neuralgia was not documented prior to second surgery (tendon repair) and the CI was not referred to the PEB until after he had left foot pain in addition to his left ankle pain. The pertinent military records of the Department of the Air Force relating XXXXXXXXXX be corrected to show that the diagnoses in his finding of unfitness were Chronic Left...
AF | PDBR | CY2009 | PD2009-00429
Examinations from May 2005 by a civilian neurologist show difficulty with right foot dorsiflexion, a lot of pain laterally on the leg from the knee down, especially on the foot with any tactile stimuli or with movement. The VA rated the CI’s disability under a peripheral neuropathy code but included the functional motor loss and therefore was not limited to rating the disability at the moderate level. The CI had motor weakness most likely due to pain documented on multiple examinations as...
AF | PDBR | CY2013 | PD-2013-02247
SEPARATION DATE: 20070430 Members agreed that the evidence supports a 20% rating for Group XI moderately severe muscle disability due to cardinal signs and symptoms of muscle disability of marked muscle atrophy, loss of soft tissue, and weakness on examination and lowered threshold of fatigue, fatigue-pain, and uncertainty of movement/incoordination with repetitive ROM or extended standing and walking, and loss of power due to posterior scar tissue.The Board again considered the normal gait...
AF | PDBR | CY2011 | PD2011-00745
The CI was then medically separated with a 10% disability rating. Pain Left Foot Condition . All evidence considered, there is not a preponderance of the evidence in the CI’s favor supporting addition of the left ankle condition as an unfitting condition for separation rating.
AF | PDBR | CY2009 | PD2009-00017
The VA only rated the tibial nerve (8624) and this ignored the problem in the 1 distribution area of the common peroneal nerve (8621) and the sural nerve. While there is no rule that prohibits rating more than one peripheral nerve, this CI has a condition, RSD, that involves multiple nerves and it is appropriate to rate the overall condition, not the individual nerve injuries that comprise the condition. Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy, Left Ankle, rated as Neuritis, Severe Incomplete...
AF | PDBR | CY2013 | PD-2013-01387
(2).It is limited to those conditions determined by the PEB to be unfitting for continued military service and those conditions identified but not determined to be unfitting by the PEB when specifically requested by the CI. Post-Separation)ConditionCodeRatingConditionCodeRatingExam Posttraumatic Arthritis, Left Knee, Secondary to Gunshot Wound (GSW)501010%Residual of GSW to the Left Knee withTraumatic Arthritis and Partial Left Saphenous andSural Nerve Injuries531130%20050627Scars, Residual...
AF | PDBR | CY2014 | PD-2014-01873
It is limited to those conditions determined by the PEB to be unfitting for continued military service and those conditions identified but not determined to be unfitting by the PEB when specifically requested by the CI. RATING COMPARISON : Service FPEB – Dated 20071127VA* - Based on Service Treatment Records(STR)ConditionCodeRatingConditionCodeRatingExam Chronic Pain Left Foot, Possibly Secondary to Sural Neuralgia8799-872510%Left Ankle Condition, Status Post Brostrom Surgery52710%STRSural...
AF | PDBR | CY2013 | PD-2013-02349
The Board’s assessment of the PEB rating determinations is confined to review of medical records and all available evidence for application of the VASRD standards to the unfitting medical condition at the time of separation. After careful consideration of your application and treatment records, the Physical Disability Board of Review determined that the rating assigned at the time of final disposition of your disability evaluation system processing was not appropriate under the guidelines...
AF | PDBR | CY2012 | PD 2012 00444
The Physical Evaluation Board (PEB) adjudicated the right ankle pain; common peroneal partial neuritis, moderate condition as unfitting, rated 20%. The PEB rated that at 0%. However, the unfitting condition was right ankle pain a separate rating would be based on the same impairment used to adjudicate a rating under the nerve code used by the PEB and is prohibited by §4.14 (Avoidance of pyramiding).