The Board has granted a 50 percent rating for the veteran's service-connected back disability, which includes residuals of Scheuermann's disease of the thoracic and lumbar spine, residuals of contusion of thoracic spine, and residuals of compression fractures of the thoracic spine. The depression is also found to be proximately due to or the result of her service-connected back disability.
The deciding factor: The veteran's depression was found to be secondary to her service-connected back disability based on medical evidence showing a causal relationship between the two conditions.
- Claimed conditions
- residuals of Scheuermann's disease of the thoracic and lumbar spine, residuals of contusion of thoracic spine, residuals of compression fractures of the thoracic spine
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 50%
- Decision date
- May 16, 2005
- Citation
- 0513109
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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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