The Senses

Your traditional five senses: sight, sound, taste, touch, and smell.


Ratings Involving the Ears

Balance disorders, cancers & tumors, earache, hearing loss, and tinnitus.


Ratings Involving the Eyes

Cancers & tumors, conditions of eye, diseases of the eyes, reduction/loss of sight.


Ratings Involving the Taste and Smell


Rating Involving Touch

While the rating schedules does not specifically address sense of touch. Veterans who have an impaired sensation of touch are likely best rated under either the nervous system or the skin schedules.

> Conditions that the VA will NOT Rate
> Dental and Oral > Digestive System
> Endocrine System > Female Reproductive System
> Genitourinary System
> Infectious Diseases and Immune Disorders > Mental Disorders
> Nutritional Deficiencies > Respiratory System
> Skin