Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2023C00151:reg:54:p21
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2023C00151
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 54 (pt 21/36)
Character Range: 136545–139670

No age adjustment permitted for this table
Other Impairment Table 3.1.5
DISLOCATION OF SHOULDER
Impairment Ratings
                              Criteria
NIL                              No recurrent dislocation of shoulder.
                               Dislocation of shoulder on a single occasion.
TWO                           Recurrent dislocation of shoulder surgically corrected.
FIVE                          Recurrent dislocation of shoulder not surgically corrected.
TEN                           Dislocation of shoulder resulting in prophylactic restriction of movement.
                              Only one rating is to be selected from this table for each shoulder.

No age adjustment permitted for this table

Substep 8B  Compare the apportioned functional impairment rating corresponding to the impairment due to amputations affecting the right upper limb (obtained in substep 8A) with the Other Impairment rating from either Table 3.1.3 or Table 3.1.4 (obtained in Step 7). The higher of these two ratings is to be selected.
Substep 8C  Compare the apportioned functional impairment rating corresponding to the impairment due to dislocations of the right shoulder (obtained in substep 8A) with the Other Impairment rating from Table 3.1.5 (obtained in Step 7). The higher of these two ratings is to be selected.
Substep 8D  The veteran's accepted right upper limb condition(s) will receive (up to) three impairment ratings:

             The functional impairment rating corresponding to the impairment of the right upper limb due to all causes other than amputations and dislocation of shoulder (if such a rating is obtained in substep 8A);

             The impairment rating obtained in substep 8B; and

             The impairment rating obtained in substep 8C.

            These ratings are not to be combined at this stage but are to be included in the final combining of all ratings.

Examples

Example 1

A veteran has an amputation of the right thumb as the only accepted disability of the right upper limb.

By following steps 1 to 7 inclusive, a rating will have been selected

         from Table 3.1.2:
         probably 20 to 40 impairment points (depending on the severity of the effect on the hand)

         from Table 3.1.3:
         20 impairment points.

These two ratings are compared and the veteran receives the higher as the final impairment rating for the right upper limb.

Example 2

A veteran has an amputation of his right thumb and dislocation of the right shoulder as the only accepted conditions of the right upper limb.
By following steps 1 to 7 inclusive, a rating will have been selected

         from Table 3.1.2:
         say, 40 impairment points (the veteran can use the right upper limb reasonably well in a few circumstances only)

         from Table 3.1.3:
         20 impairment points; and

         from Table 3.1.5:
         10 impairment points.

Medical evidence shows that the incapacity of the veteran's right upper limb is due 80% to the shoulder condition and 20% to the amputated thumb. Apportioning the 40 impairment points in the ratio