Service connection granted for right thoracolumbar strain, and an initial evaluation of 20 percent was assigned. Service connection was also granted for a chronic headache disability.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's back pain is service-connected as secondary to his service-connected right thoracolumbar strain.
- Claimed conditions
- bilateral knee disorder, bilateral shoulder disorder, chronic headache disability
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 20%
- Decision date
- June 25, 2013
- Citation
- 1320482
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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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Related decisions
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- Granted
The Board has granted service connection for a thoracolumbar spine disability, but denied service connection for bilateral hearing loss disorder, gout, multiple painful joints, bilateral ankle disorder, bilateral knee disorder, and obstructive sleep apnea (OSA).
- Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's claims of service connection for bilateral shoulder, elbow, wrist, and hip disorders due to a lack of current diagnoses in the medical records.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the claims of service connection for various conditions including an acquired psychiatric disorder, chronic pain and fatigue, psoriatic arthritis, bilateral shoulder disorder, and low back disorder due to a failure to provide notice of the right to a hearing.
- Partly granted
The Veteran's claim for service connection for a chronic headache disability was denied. The Board found that the Veteran did not have a current diagnosis of a headache disability.,Service connection for major depressive disorder on a direct basis was granted.
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