Injury to muscles that pull the thigh inward toward the body.
Because the rating levels are defined by § 4.56, the evidence that helps most is evidence that maps directly to those criteria. Medical records documenting the extent of muscle damage, surgical or wound records, and imaging results can show the size and depth of the injury to the adductor muscle group.
Examination findings are especially important. Records that note muscle weakness, loss of strength or endurance, pain on use, and any visible wasting or scarring of the inner thigh help place the injury at the right level of severity. Measurements of range of motion for hip adduction, hip flexion, and knee flexion are relevant because those are the functions these muscles control.
Statements from you or people who know you — describing how the injury limits walking, climbing, standing, or other physical demands of work and daily life — can help show functional impact. If your injury has caused or contributed to loss of use of a lower extremity, that information is relevant to the special monthly compensation question as well.
Conditions that are often caused or made worse by this one. If you have any of these, they may be claimable as secondary service connection.
