Radiculopathy Addition?

[Bevo]

I was going through my claim and noticed that a common symptom listed has been that my right arm gets numb, tingles, and feels like it is falling asleep. This has been included in my original 2008 C&P, my letters to the VA, my 2013 C&P, and my chiropractor's letter stating he had seen this since 2007.

I feel like I am going to get service connected for cervical spine and shoulder. If I do, would filing for mild radiculopathy be warranted? Is this something the BVA or AMC might automatically look into if I get the cervical spine/shoulder connected and included in their rating?

To be honest, until doing BVA decision research, I had never heard the term radiculopathy.

I also find it odd that my 2013 C&P doctor listed the tingling and numbness to the right arm as well as noting the 2008 C&P examiner noting it, but put the X in NO under Radiculopathy. Maybe he did not know what that means either? That entire C&P is goofy and he turned it in within an hour of me leaving so I think he just hurried,

Anyhow, any thoughts to this?

[john999]

If you get spine and shoulder SC'ed then radiculopathy is just one of many ways to describe cervical disability. It just means your nerves in neck are being pinched which causes the numbness. Many ways for this to occur.