Your service connection claims for neurological disorders of the upper and lower extremities have been granted.
The deciding factor: The April 2016 rating decision granted service connection based on a March 2016 VA examination that concluded both conditions are as likely as not caused by or related to your service-connected diabetes mellitus.
- Claimed conditions
- neurological disorder of the bilateral upper extremities, neurological disorder of the bilateral lower extremities
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- September 14, 2017
- Citation
- 1739424
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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.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Partly granted
The Board granted service connection for lumbar spine disability and denied higher initial ratings for shoulder, TBI, and cervical spine disabilities. Other claims were remanded.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claims for a bilateral knee disorder and a neurological disorder of the bilateral lower extremities to obtain additional medical opinions.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the claims for service connection due to inadequate medical opinions and failure to comply with prior remand directives.
- Denied
The Board denied service connection for a neurological disorder of the bilateral lower extremities and a bilateral knee disorder, finding that there was no evidence linking these conditions to service or within one year after separation from service.
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