The Board denied the Veteran's claims for clothing allowances due to the use of a wheelchair, medication for a skin disorder, and wrist braces. The reasons include that none of these conditions are service-connected, or if they were, their use does not benefit other service-connected disabilities.
The deciding factor: None of the claimed conditions are service-connected, or if they were, their use does not benefit other service-connected disabilities.
- Claimed conditions
- Major depressive disorder with recurrent psychotic features, Reduced extension of the right elbow, Right elbow flexion contracture, Residuals of a rotator cuff tear of the right shoulder, Residuals of a rotator cuff tear of the left shoulder, Painful scar of the right elbow, Scar of the right shoulder, Scar of the left shoulder
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- September 19, 2018
- Citation
- 18136673
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