The Board has denied the Veteran's claim for service connection for an acquired psychiatric disability, to include as secondary to service-connected adductors myositis and left/adductors tenosynovitis.
The deciding factor: The evidence did not support a grant of service connection for the claimed condition.
- Claimed conditions
- anxiety features
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- October 24, 2013
- Citation
- 1333639
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What this means for you
A final Board denial may be appealed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims, generally within 120 days of the Board mailing date. A Supplemental Claim with new and relevant evidence is a separate option. Another Higher-Level Review of the Board decision is not available. Check your own notice: this historical decision does not set your deadline.
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).
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Whole decision: Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's claim for service connection for an acquired psychiatric disability, finding no medical relationship between his current psychiatric conditions and either his service or his service-connected adductors myositis.
- Whole decision: Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the case due to a request for a videoconference hearing and unclear appeal scope. The Veteran's claims for service connection are pending.
- Whole decision: Remanded (sent back)
The Board has decided to remand the case for further development and consideration, including obtaining additional medical opinions regarding whether the Veteran's acquired psychiatric disorder is related to his service-connected disabilities.
- Whole decision: Denied
The Board found that the preponderance of evidence does not support a medical relationship between the Veteran's acquired psychiatric disability and his military service or his service-connected adductors myositis, left/adductors tenosynovitis.
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