VA Disability Rating for Neuritis of sciatic nerve (DC 8620)

Rating levels

• 60% — This 60% level applies when your neuritis of the sciatic nerve amounts to severe incomplete paralysis of that nerve: marked loss of strength, feeling or reflexes along the nerve, usually with muscle wasting. Neuritis is rated on the same scale as incomplete paralysis of the nerve. Under 38 CFR 4.123, sciatic neuritis without organic changes (muscle wasting, lost reflexes, sensory loss) is rated no higher than moderately severe, 40% (for every other nerve the cap is moderate); with those changes, severe incomplete paralysis is the highest level, and complete paralysis is rated under the nerve's paralysis code.
• 40% — This 40% level applies when your neuritis of the sciatic nerve amounts to moderately severe incomplete paralysis of that nerve: loss of strength and feeling between the moderate and the severe level. Neuritis is rated on the same scale as incomplete paralysis of the nerve. Under 38 CFR 4.123, sciatic neuritis without organic changes (muscle wasting, lost reflexes, sensory loss) is rated no higher than moderately severe, 40% (for every other nerve the cap is moderate); with those changes, severe incomplete paralysis is the highest level, and complete paralysis is rated under the nerve's paralysis code.
• 20% — This 20% level applies when your neuritis of the sciatic nerve amounts to moderate incomplete paralysis of that nerve: a clear loss of strength or feeling that is more than slight. Neuritis is rated on the same scale as incomplete paralysis of the nerve. Under 38 CFR 4.123, sciatic neuritis without organic changes (muscle wasting, lost reflexes, sensory loss) is rated no higher than moderately severe, 40% (for every other nerve the cap is moderate); with those changes, severe incomplete paralysis is the highest level, and complete paralysis is rated under the nerve's paralysis code.
• 10% — This 10% level applies when your neuritis of the sciatic nerve amounts to mild incomplete paralysis of that nerve: symptoms that are mostly sensory, with little loss of strength. Neuritis is rated on the same scale as incomplete paralysis of the nerve. Under 38 CFR 4.123, sciatic neuritis without organic changes (muscle wasting, lost reflexes, sensory loss) is rated no higher than moderately severe, 40% (for every other nerve the cap is moderate); with those changes, severe incomplete paralysis is the highest level, and complete paralysis is rated under the nerve's paralysis code.