The Board has found new and material evidence sufficient to reopen the veteran's claim for service connection of post-polio syndrome. The expert medical opinion supports a finding that spinal degenerative joint disease is related to service, including possible aggravation during service.
The deciding factor: The expert medical opinion provided by the VA's Veteran's Health Administration (VHA) supports a causal link between the veteran's period of active service and his current spinal degenerative joint disease.
- Claimed conditions
- post-polio syndrome, spinal degenerative joint disease
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 31, 2000
- Citation
- 0002386
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What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claim for service connection of post-polio syndrome to obtain missing treatment records and a new medical opinion.
- Granted
The Veteran's post-polio syndrome is granted a total disability evaluation, and DEA benefits are established from April 25, 2016.
- Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's claim for service connection for post-polio syndrome, finding that there was no evidence of aggravation beyond natural progression and that the condition was not incurred during or related to active service.
- Denied
The Board has determined that the Veteran's post-polio syndrome condition clearly and unmistakably existed prior to active service, and did not undergo a permanent increase in severity beyond its natural progression during active service. Therefore, the claim for service connection is denied.
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