The veteran's service-connected PTSD is granted with a 100% evaluation, and his claims for residuals of right middle finger injury, left ankle injury, and left knee injury are denied.
The deciding factor: PTSD symptoms have resulted in severe social and occupational impairment that precludes the veteran from securing or following substantially gainful employment.
- Claimed conditions
- bruxism, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), left ankle injury, left knee injury, right middle finger injury
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- August 30, 2000
- Citation
- 0023052
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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
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Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
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- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claim for service connection for PTSD to be readjudicated on the merits due to new and relevant evidence.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claims for service connection for bruxism and temporomandibular joint (TMJ) disorder to obtain additional medical opinions regarding their etiology, including whether they are related to exposures during service.
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