The Veteran's claims to reopen service connection for shoulder, headache, hip, and leg disabilities are granted. The underlying claims of entitlement to increased ratings for service-connected residuals of a compression fracture, C-6 with degenerative disc disease and sinusitis are deferred pending completion of the development sought in the remand that follows.
The deciding factor: New evidence received since the 1993 denial raises a reasonable possibility of substantiating the Veteran's claims of service connection for shoulder, headache, hip, and leg disabilities.
- Claimed conditions
- compression fracture, C-6, degenerative disc disease of the cervical spine, sinusitis, shoulder disability, headache, hip disability, leg disability
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 25, 2010
- Citation
- 1006929
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