The Board has determined that the veteran's right elbow disability is proximately due to or the result of his service-connected left elbow disability, and thus grants service connection for this condition.
The deciding factor: The VA medical examination did not render an opinion regarding a relationship between the left and right elbows but the private physician related the veteran's right elbow disability to his 'service-connected left arm condition'.
- Claimed conditions
- Right elbow disability
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 3, 2003
- Citation
- 0306412
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Decisions by this judge: 1,710 · Granted: 15% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
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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.
- Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's claims for service connection for a right elbow disability and a nasal disability, finding that there was no evidence of in-service injury or disease resulting in these conditions.
- Denied
The Veteran's claims for a compensable rating for allergic rhinitis and service connection for a right elbow disability were denied. The Board found that the Veteran does not have current disabilities related to these conditions.
- Denied
The Board has denied service connection for right elbow, left elbow, right wrist, and left wrist disabilities as there is no current evidence of these conditions.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the case due to inadequate opinions regarding the Veteran's right elbow disability, including service connection and secondary service connection.
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