Inflammation of the upper arm nerve roots, which may cause pain, weakness, or numbness in the shoulder and upper arm.
Medical records that document your shoulder and elbow range of motion, strength testing, and reflex findings help show where your condition falls on the rating scale. Nerve conduction studies or electromyography results can provide objective evidence of how much nerve function has been lost. A VA or private examination that specifically measures whether shoulder and elbow movements are absent, severely reduced, moderately reduced, or only mildly affected is directly tied to the criteria above.
If your symptoms are purely sensory, such as numbness, tingling, or pain without any motor weakness, records and examination findings that confirm the sensory-only nature of your condition are relevant because the regulation limits those cases to the mild or moderate levels. Statements from you or people who know you describing how weakness or limited arm movement affects your work and daily tasks can help show the practical impact of your symptoms at whichever level applies to your case.
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.
