This may help some of you.   This is not "secret" information but I would rather you keep your sources to yourself.  But, you can share it with any veterans that may need this.  We vets have been getting the shaft for years because we don't know the rules. 

 

 

Chronic adjustment disorder

General Rating Formula for Mental Disorders

 

Total occupational and social impairment, due to such symtoms as: gross impairment in thought processes or communication; persistent delusions or hallucinations; grossly inappropriate persistent delusions or hallucinations; grossly inappropriate behavior; persistent danger of hurting self or others; intermittent inability to perform activities of daily living (including maintenance of minimal personal hygiene); disorientation to time or place; memory loss for names of close relatives, own occupation, or own name..............100 Percent

 

Occupational and social impairment, with deficiencies in most areas, such as work, shcool, family relations, judgment, thinking, or mood, due to such symptoms as; suicidal ideation; obsessional rituals which interfere with routine activites; speech intermittently illogical, obscure, or irrelevant; near-continuous panic or depression affecting the ability to function independently, appropriately and effectively; impaired impulse control (such as unprovoked irritabiltiy with periods of violence); spatial disorientation; neglect of personal appearance and hygience; difficulty in adapting to stressful circumstances (including work or a worklike setting); inability to establish and maintain effective relationships................................70 percent

 

Occumpational and social impairment with reduced reliability and productivity due to such symptoms as: flattened affect; circumstantial, circumlocutory, or stereotyped speech; panic attacks more than once a week; difficulty in understanding complex commands; impairment of short and long term memory (e.g., retention of only highly learned material, forgetting to complete tasks); impaired judgment; impaired abstract thinking; disturbances of motivation and mood; difficulty in establilshing and maintaining effective work and social relationships------------50 percent

 

Occumpational and social impairment with occasional decrease in work efficiency and intermittent periods of inability to perform occumpational tasks (although generally functioning satisfactorily, with routine behavior, self-care, and conversation normal), due to such symptoms as: depressed mood, anxiety, suspiciousness, panic attacks (weekly or less often), chronic sleep impairment, mild memory loss (such as forgetting names, directions, recent events).---------30 percent

 

Occumpational and social impairment due to mild or transient symptoms which decrease work efficiency and ability to perform occumpational taks only during periods of significant stress, or; symptoms controlled by continouous medication...........................10 percent

 

A mental condition has been formally diagnosed, but symptoms are not severe enough either to interfere with occupational and social functioning or tyo require continuous medication.........................0 percent

  

ANXIETY DISORDERS - Generalized anxiety disorder; Specific (simple) phobia; social phobia; Obsessive combulsive disorder; Other and unspecified neurosis; Post-traumatic stress disorder; Panic disorder and/or agoraphobia; Anxiety disorder, not otherwise specified.

 

DISSOCIATIVE DISORDERS - Dissociative amnesia; dissociative fugue; dissociative identiy disorder (multiple personality disorder); Despersonalization disorder

 

SOMATOFORM DISORDERS - Somatization disorder; Pain disorder; Undifferentiated somatoform disorder; Conversion disorder; Hypochondriasis

 

MOOD DISORDERS - Cyclothymic disorder; Bipolar disorder; Dysthymic disorder; Major depressive disorder; Major desprerssive disorder; Mood disorder, not otherwise specified.

THE HIP AND THIGH

 

5250  Hip, ankylosis of:  Unfavorable, extremely unfavorable ankylosis, the foot not reaching ground, crutches necessitated.........90%.

Intermediate.................70%

Favorable in flexion at an angle between 20 and 40 degrees and slight adduction or abduction............60%

 

5251  THIGH, limitation of extension of:

    Extension limited to 5 degrees...........10%

 

5252  THIGH, limitation of flexion of:  (In degrees)

    Flexion limited to 10................40%

    Flexion limited to 20................30%

    Flexion limited to 30................20%

    Flexion limited to 45................10%

 

5253  THIGH, impairment of:

    Limiation of abduction of, motion lost beyond 10..................................................20%

    Limitation of adduction of, cannot cross legs.......................................................10%

    Limiation of rotation of, cannot toe-out more than 15, affected leg..........................10%

 

5254   HIP,   flail   joint ......................................80%

 

5255   FEMUR, impairment of

      Fracture of shaft or anatomical neck of:

        With nonunion, with loose motion (spiral or oblique fracture)....................................80%

        With nonunion, without loose motion, weightbearing preserved with aid of brace........60%   

    Fracture of surgical neck of, with false joint................................................................60%

    Malunion of:

        With marked knee or hip disability........................................30%

        With moderate knee or hip disability.....................................20%

        With slight knee or hip disability...........................................10%

 

5256   KNEE, ankylosis of:

              Extremely unfavorable, in flexion at an angle of 45 degrees or more....................................60%

              In flexion between 20 and 45 degrees...............................................................................50%

              In flexion between 10 and 20 degrees...............................................................................40%

              Favorable angle in full extension, or in slight flexion between 0 and 10 degrees....................30%

 

5257   KNEE, other impairment of:

              Recurrent sublixation or lateral instability:

                Severe.................................................30%

                Moderate.............................................20%

                Slight..................................................10%

 

5258    Carilage, semilunar, dislocated, with frequent episodes of "locking," pain, and effusion into the joint.....20%

 

5259   CARTILAGE, semilunar, removal of, symptomatic.............................................................................10%

 

5260   LEG, limitation of flexion of:  (In degrees)

            Flexion limited to 15........................30%

            Flexion limited to 30........................20%

            Flexion limited to 45........................10%

            Flexion limited to 60........................  0%

 

5261   LEG, limitation of extension of: (In degrees)

            Extension limited to 45....................50%

            Extension limited to 30....................40%

            Extension limited to 20....................30%

            Extension limited to 15....................20%

            Extension limited to 10....................10%

            Extension limited to   5....................  0%

 

5262   TIBIA, and fibula, impariment of:

            Nonunion of, with loose motion, requiring brace............................................40%

 

            Malunion of:

                With marked knee or ankle disability.......................................................30%

                With moderate knee or ankle disability....................................................20%

                With slight knee or ankle disability..........................................................10%

 

5263   GENU RECURVATUM (acquired, traumatic, with weakness and insecurity in

          weight-bearing objectively demonstrated)........................................................10%

 

5. 

5285   VERTEBRA, fracture of, residuals:

            With cord involvement, bedridden, or requiring long leg braces................................................100%

            Consider special monthly compensation; withlesser involvements rate for

            limited motion, nerve paralysis. 

            Without cord involvement; abnormal mobility requiring neck brace (jury mast)............................60%

                In orhter cases rate in accordance with definite limited motion or muscle spasm, adding 10 percent for demonstrable deformity of vertebral body.

 

 

5286   SPINE, complete bony fixation (ankylosis) of:

            Unfavorable angle, with marked deformity and involvement of major joints (Marie-Strumpell type) or without other joint involvement (Bechterew type)...........................................................................................................100%

            Favorable angle....................................................................................................................60%

           

5287   SPINE, ankylosis of, cervical:

            Unfavorable................................................40%

            Favorable...................................................30%

 

5288   SPINE, ankylosis of, dorsal:

            Unfavorable................................................30%

            Favorable...................................................20%

 

5289   SPINE, ankylosis of, lumbar:

            Unfavorable................................................50%

            Favorable...................................................40%

 

5290   SPINE, limitation of motion of, cervical:

            Severe.......................................................30%

            Moderate...................................................20%

            Slight........................................................10%

 

5191   SPINE, limitation of motion of, dorsal:

            Severe.......................................................10%

            Moderate....................................................10%

            Slight...........................................................0%

 

5292   SPINE, limitation of motion of, lumbar:

            Severe........................................................40%

            Moderate....................................................20%

            Slight.........................................................10%

 

5293   INTERVERTEBRAL DISC SYNDROME:

            Pronounced; with persistent symptions compatible with sciatic neuropathy with characteristic pain and demonstrable

            muscle spasm, absent ankle jerk, or other neurological findings appropriate to site of diseased disc, little

            intermittent relief.....................................................60%

            Severe; recurrring attacks, with intermittent relief.......40%

            Moderate; recurring attacks.....................................20%

            Mild.......................................................................10%

            Postoperative, cured.................................................0%

 

5294   SACRO-ILIAC INJURY AND WEAKNESS:

           

5295   LUMBOSACRAL STRAIN:

            Severe; with listing of whole spine to opposite side, positive Goldthwaite's sign, marked limitation of forward bending in

            standing position, loss of lateral motion with osteo-arthritic changes, or narrowing or irregularity of joint space, or some of

            the above with abnormal mobility or forced motion..............................................40%

            With muscle spasm on extreme forward bending, loss of lateral spine motion.......20%

            Unilateral, in standing position with characteristic pain on motion.........................10%

            With slight subjective symptions only..................................................................0%