The Board has reopened the claims for service connection for a right shoulder disorder, skin disorder, and back disorder. The evidence now supports these claims as they are related to the Veteran's service-connected left shoulder disability.
The deciding factor: The new medical opinions link the current right shoulder, skin, and back disorders to the Veteran's service-connected left shoulder disability.
- Claimed conditions
- Cervical Spine Disorder, Acquired Psychiatric Disorder (to include Posttraumatic Stress Disorder), Right Shoulder Impingement Syndrome, Skin Disorder, Back Disorder
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 7, 2016
- Citation
- 1608961
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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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