Va Disability Rating For Sciatic Nerve Paralysis

Typically lower extremity peripheral neuropathy is rated analogous to paralysis of the sciatic nerve under diagnostic code 8520.

Va disability rating for sciatic nerve paralysis. Severe with marked muscular atrophy. Incomplete paralysis can be determined as severe moderately severe moderate or mild with disability ratings as low as 10 percent. Paralysis of the Sciatic Nerve Diagnostic Code 8520 80 complete paralysis in which all the muscles of the leg below the knee fail to work causing serious difficulty in bending the knee. Look for your highest disability rating or highest combined rating in the left column and your next lowest disability rating in the top row.

19 to 29 disabling. 60 Incomplete Severe Muscle atrophy poor blood circulation and or limited functionality of affected body part. What if you have limited motion and a separate nerve condition. Last the VA will look at the rating criteria for neuralgia associated with the sciatic nerve diagnostic code 8720 and assign a 20 rating based on moderate neuralgia of the sciatic nerve.

Your combined rating is the number where the 2 intersect on the chart rounded to the nearest 10. Complete paralysis is rated at 80 percent while incomplete paralysis has lower ratings ranging from 10 to 60 percent depending on the specific level. As you can see unless the characteristic organic changes specified under 4123 are displayed it is not likely a rating will be assigned that is greater than the moderately severe criteria 40 for the sciatic nerve. This can be shown by muscular atrophy poor blood circulation and limited functionality of the affected body part.

Paralysis most severe The nerve cannot function at all. VA would look at the evidence to determine the level of severity caused by the veterans sciatic nerve issue and assign the corresponding rating. VA disability ratings for Sciatica fall under one of the following codes from eCFR Title 38 Part 4 Schedule for Rating Disabilities. The foot dangles and drops no active movement possible of muscles below the knee flexion of knee weakened or very rarely lost.

80 Complete If the foot drops all the muscles in the leg below the knee do not work and the knee has serious trouble bending. This can be demonstrated by muscular atrophy poor blood circulation and limited movement of the affected body part. VA rates sciatica under 38 CFR 4124a Schedule of ratings neurological conditions and convulsive disorders as follows. Incomplete paralysis can be considered as severe moderately severe moderate or mild with disability ratings as low as 10 percent.

The VA awards disability compensation for each condition of the Peripheral Nerves of the Low Back and Legs that is service-connectedThe DoD will also rate service-connected conditions as long as they also make the service member Unfit for DutyFor Reservists the condition must have occurred in or resulted from an injury in the Line of Duty to qualify. Paralysis of the sciatic nerve. External popliteal nerve common peroneal. Tic douloureux or trifacial neuralgia may be rated up to complete paralysis of the affected nerve.

Incomplete but severe paralysis of the sciatic nerve may lead to a 60 percent disability rating. VA Disability Ratings VA does not have a diagnostic code DC for peripheral neuropathy so it rates it analogous. If the foot drops it cannot be lifted by the muscles in the legs all the muscles in the leg below the knee do not work at all and the knee has serious trouble bending bending the knee doesnt have to be impossible to rate as complete paralysis. What is the VA disability rating for Sciatica.