Shoulder decisions — 2025

The Board granted a total disability rating based on individual unemployability (TDIU) due to the Veteran's service-connected disabilities.

The Board denied service connection for left ear hearing loss and remanded claims for right shoulder disability, low back disorder, eczema, and right ear hearing loss.

The Board remands the Veteran's claims for increased ratings and extraschedular consideration due to inadequate medical opinions.

The Board remands the issues of entitlement to service connection for left shoulder, right shoulder, lumbar spine, and cervical spine disabilities as there was a lack of compliance with previous remand directives.

The Board granted an initial 20 percent rating for the left shoulder disorder prior to September 14, 2016.

The Board granted service connection for left shoulder, lumbar spine, and bilateral knee disorders but denied service connection for a right knee disorder.

The Board remands the claims for service connection for left and right shoulder disabilities due to an inadequate VA examination that failed to consider the Veteran's lay assertions of continuity of symptoms.

The Board granted service connection for a right shoulder condition, resolving all doubt in favor of the Veteran.

The Board denied service connection for left shoulder arthritis and tendinopathy, degenerative arthritis of the cervical spine, and a disability rating in excess of 50 percent for PTSD.

The Veteran's left shoulder disability is granted a 30 percent rating, and the claims for a higher rating and TDIU are remanded.

The Board denied the Veteran's claim for service connection for a left shoulder condition, finding no evidence of a link between the in-service injury and the current disability.

The appeal for an earlier effective date was dismissed, and the Veteran's claim for service connection for a left shoulder disability was granted with an effective date of April 22, 2011.

The appeal for an earlier effective date than October 28, 2021, for the assignment of a 20 percent rating for the service-connected left shoulder was dismissed due to lack of specific error allegations.

The Board denied entitlement to a disability rating in excess of 20 percent for the Veteran's service-connected right shoulder impingement syndrome.

The Board granted service connection for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and denied the remaining claims, including higher ratings for left shoulder strain with labral tear, bilateral hearing loss, tinnitus, a low back disability, and bilateral foot pain.

The appeal for compensation under 38 U.S.C. § 1151 for a right shoulder disability was dismissed due to a procedural defect involving concurrent elections of review options.

The Board granted service connection for tinnitus and increased initial ratings of 10 percent and 20 percent, but no higher, for the right ankle disability and right shoulder disability, respectively.

The Board denied service connection for a right shoulder condition and remanded the claims for service connection for right and left hip conditions to correct pre-decisional duty to assist errors.

The Board denied the claims for service connection for ischemic heart disease, an increased rating for isolated systolic hypertension, and remanded the claims for increased ratings for shoulder arthritis and service connection for squamous skin cancer.

The Board denied service connection for a back disability, right knee disability, left knee disability, left shoulder disability, and hearing loss as there is no evidence of a current disability related to the Veteran's military service.