[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 38, Volume 1]

[Revised as of July 1, 2005]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 38CFR4.10]



[Page 366]

 

            TITLE 38--PENSIONS, BONUSES, AND VETERANS' RELIEF

 

                CHAPTER I--DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS

 

PART 4_SCHEDULE FOR RATING DISABILITIES--Table of Contents

 

                   Subpart A_General Policy in Rating

 

Sec. 4.10  Functional impairment.



    The basis of disability evaluations is the ability of the body as a 

whole, or of the psyche, or of a system or organ of the body to function 

under the ordinary conditions of daily life including employment. 

Whether the upper or lower extremities, the back or abdominal wall, the 

eyes or ears, or the cardiovascular, digestive, or other system, or 

psyche are affected, evaluations are based upon lack of usefulness, of 

these parts or systems, especially in self-support. This imposes upon 

the medical examiner the responsibility of furnishing, in addition to 

the etiological, anatomical, pathological, laboratory and prognostic 

data required for ordinary medical classification, full description of 

the effects of disability upon the person's ordinary activity. In this 

connection, it will be remembered that a person may be too disabled to 

engage in employment although he or she is up and about and fairly 

comfortable at home or upon limited activity.



[41 FR 11292, Mar. 18, 1976]