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Values given are the same whether it is a single or multiple fracture in the SAME vertebra. Fractures of the body and the posterior elements in the same vertebra are to be COMBINED.
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At MMI if the fracture is healed and causes no functional impairment, it is not ratable.
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3.
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Healed vertebral odontoid, Jefferson, and slice fractures
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5%
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Malunion or non-union
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10%
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Dislocation reduced without fusion
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5%
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Dislocation reduced with surgical fusion
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10%
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Dislocation unreduced
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5-15%
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Additional segments: Combine with value from appropriate section of the spine where applicable.
INTERVERTEBRAL DISC OR OTHER SOFT TISSUE LESIONS
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Disorder
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Impairment of
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|
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the Whole Person
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1.
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Unoperated with no objective
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|
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residual signs of injury
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0%
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2.
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Pain associated with rigidity (loss of motion or postural abnormality) and chronic muscle spasm. The chronic muscle spasm and rigidity is substantiated by objective clinical findings but without associated demonstrable degenerative changes
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3.
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Unoperated, with medically documented *injury and associated with minimal
|
|
|
|
post traumatic changes on diagnostic tests (including disc lesions with the
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|
|
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exception of HNP)
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|
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Cervical
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4%
|
|
|
Thoracic
|
3%
|
|
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Lumbar
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5%
|
|
4.
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Herniated intervertebral disc single vertebral level, not surgically treated.
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|
|
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Diagnostic imaging studies specifically positive for herniated disc;with or
|
|
|
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without resolution of objective neurological findings**
|
|
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Cervical
|
5%
|
|
|
Thoracic
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4%
|
|
|
Lumbar
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6%
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