The Board finds that the Veteran's bilateral wrist disability, including carpal tunnel syndrome, is related to service and grants service connection for this condition.,Service connection is granted for a bilateral wrist disability (carpal tunnel syndrome) as secondary to herbicide exposure. However, there is no evidence of a lower extremity disability due to service or herbicide exposure.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner found that the Veteran's carpal tunnel syndrome was at least as likely as not proximately due to or the result of his service-connected condition and related to herbicide exposure.
- Claimed conditions
- bilateral wrist disability, carpal tunnel syndrome
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- September 8, 2017
- Citation
- 1737957
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What this means for you
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Related decisions
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- Whole decision: Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran's appeal is remanded due to inadequate VA examinations and a pre-decisional duty to assist error. Additional development is needed for service connection of carpal tunnel syndrome, increased ratings for lower extremity radiculopathies, and obtaining a VA TERA opinion.
- Whole decision: Dismissed
The Veteran withdrew his appeal for service connection of carpal tunnel syndrome in the left upper extremity, and the Board has dismissed this case.
- Whole decision: Granted
The Veteran's carpal tunnel syndrome and ulnar nerve post traumatic mononeuropathy of the right upper extremity is rated at 40 percent effective July 23, 2019.
- Whole decision: Granted
The Veteran's carpal tunnel syndrome was diagnosed during service and has continued to the present. The Board granted service connection for this condition, finding that the evidence is at least in equipoise that it began in service.
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