The veteran's claims for service connection for various conditions were denied, but new and material evidence was found to reopen the claim for a foot condition. The other claims remained denied.
The deciding factor: The additional evidence received since April 1997 is not cumulative or redundant of evidence previously of record and raises a reasonable possibility of substantiating the claim of service connection for foot condition, but does not raise a reasonable possibility of substantiating any of the other claims.
- Claimed conditions
- foot condition, to include hammer toes, low back condition, dental condition for VA treatment purposes, right hand condition, eye condition, PTSD, innocently acquired psychiatric condition other than PTSD, to include major depression, Gulf War Syndrome, condition of the mouth, condition of a finger, neck condition, arm condition, leg condition, hip condition, headaches
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 25, 2008
- Citation
- 0809841
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Decisions by this judge: 1,599 · Granted: 37% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
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- Granted
The Board has determined that the Veteran's headaches are at least as likely as not caused by his service-connected traumatic brain injury, and thus grants service connection for this condition.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the case due to incomplete development of records and will provide a supplemental statement of the case if necessary.
- Partly granted
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