[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 38, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 38CFR4.10]

[Page 371-372]
 
            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

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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]