The Board has determined that the Veteran's service connection claims for TBI and varicose veins are granted.
The deciding factor: Service records indicate a motor vehicle accident in service, which may have led to current symptoms of TBI. Varicose veins were diagnosed post-service but the examiner opines it is at least as likely as not that they are related to service due to an in-service injury.
- Claimed conditions
- Traumatic Brain Injury, Varicose Veins
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 16, 2017
- Citation
- 1704712
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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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