The Board has determined that the Veteran's current left shoulder degenerative joint disease is related to his service, and therefore grants the claim for service connection.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence in favor of the Veteran's claim includes opinions from private physicians and a VA orthopedic physician who concluded that the Veteran's post-service arthritis was likely due to an untreated injury sustained during service.
- Claimed conditions
- left shoulder degenerative joint disease (DJD)
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 24, 2018
- Citation
- 18100930
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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.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board denied service connection for an endocrine disorder, separate and distinct from hypothyroidism, and remanded the issues of increased ratings for left knee degenerative joint disease, left shoulder DJD, and unspecified anxiety disorder.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the matter for another VA examination to address the Veteran's lay contentions and the secondary service connection theory of entitlement.
- Partly granted
The Veteran's left shoulder DJD was granted a 30 percent rating, while the claim for a compensable rating for her left shoulder scar was denied. The effective date for both conditions remains May 3, 2024.
- Dismissed
The Veteran withdrew his appeals regarding various conditions, including major depressive disorder, right lower extremity radiculopathy, cervicogenic headaches, left hip degenerative arthritis, right hip degenerative arthritis, left shoulder DJD, right shoulder osteoarthritis, and hypertension.
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