The Veteran's service-connected conditions do not meet the criteria for specially adapted housing or a special home adaptation grant due to conflicting medical opinions regarding the cause of her loss of use of lower extremities.
The deciding factor: Medical evidence does not establish that the Veteran’s loss of use of lower extremities is directly related to her service-connected conditions, including dysthymia and cervical myositis.
- Claimed conditions
- Dysthymia, Coxodynia and Lumbar Myositis with Pain in the Lower Left Extremity, Severe Cervical Myositis, Left Achilles Tendinitis, Constipation
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- March 9, 2012
- Citation
- 1209083
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What this means for you
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What you can do next
Use your own notice and decision stage. A remanded issue is not a final court-appealable denial. VA review guidance and CAVC filing instructions (U.S. federal; reviewed October 7, 2026).
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