The Board has reopened the Veteran's claim for service connection of a back condition and granted it, finding that there is evidence to support a nexus between his in-service injury and current disability.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence shows continuity of symptoms from the date of injury to the present day, including a June 2018 private treatment record which opines that the Veteran's current diagnoses are directly causal to an event during military service.
- Claimed conditions
- Back condition
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 11, 2018
- Citation
- 18141783
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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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