The Board has granted the veteran's claim for service connection for muscle, nerve, and bowel disorders as secondary to a service-connected ventral hernia repair.
The deciding factor: Service connection was established based on the secondary theory of service connection due to the veteran's existing service-connected condition (ventral hernia) aggravating his current conditions.
- Claimed conditions
- muscle, nerve, bowel disorders
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 17, 2001
- Citation
- 0127376
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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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- Denied
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