The veteran's chronic post-operative right wrist injury residuals, including scaphoid rotatory subluxation and joint fusion, are granted as the result of his pursuit of a VA vocational rehabilitation program prior to being declared rehabilitated.
The deciding factor: The disability was incurred during the veteran's pursuit of a course of VA vocational rehabilitation not due to his own willful misconduct.
- Claimed conditions
- right wrist injury residuals, scaphoid rotatory subluxation residuals, right scaphotrapezium, scaphotrapezoid, and trapezoid trapezial joint fusion
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 22, 2004
- Citation
- 0410459
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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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