The Board finds that the veteran's claims for benefits under 38 U.S.C.A. § 1151 and service connection for post-traumatic vascular headaches and headaches secondary to PTSD are well-grounded, and grants these claims.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence supports a plausible claim of additional left knee disability resulting from VA surgery in December 1996, as well as the veteran's current diagnoses of post-traumatic vascular headaches and headaches secondary to service-connected PTSD. The Board finds that there is sufficient nexus between the veteran's service and his current conditions.
- Claimed conditions
- left knee disability, post-traumatic vascular headaches, headaches secondary to service-connected PTSD
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 3, 2000
- Citation
- 0011635
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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.
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