The Board finds that the appellant's current disabilities, including paresis of the right lower extremity, impotence, and incontinence, are likely related to a motor vehicle accident during active duty training (ACDUTRA) in 1958. Therefore, service connection for residuals of a back injury is granted.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner's opinion supports a nexus between the appellant's current disabilities and his reported motor vehicle accident during ACDUTRA.
- Claimed conditions
- paresis of the right lower extremity, impotence, incontinence
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 11, 2006
- Citation
- 0610451
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 service connection for vertigo, incontinence, and GERD due to the lack of evidence supporting current diagnoses. The claims for hematuria and hemorrhoids were remanded for further development.
- Denied
The Board denied the appeal to revise the July 1994 rating decision that denied service connection for incontinence and a bladder condition, finding no clear and unmistakable error.
- Granted
The Board granted presumptive service connection for prostate cancer, and service connection for erectile dysfunction and incontinence as secondary to the service-connected prostate cancer.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claims for service connection due to pre-decisional duty to assist errors made by the AOJ.
We are not the VA. Veterans’ Rights is an independent resource built for veterans. We are not the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, not part of the government, and not endorsed by any government agency.
This is general information, not legal advice. For advice about your own situation, talk to a VA-accredited representative — many help for free.