The Board has reopened the claim for loss of use of the lower extremities and granted service connection due to new evidence showing a relationship between the Veteran's dementia, brain trauma, and seizures.
The deciding factor: The medical opinions support the Veteran's claim that his loss of use of the lower extremities is related to his service-connected dementia and traumatic brain injury.
- Claimed conditions
- loss of use of the lower extremities, dementia associated with brain trauma and seizures
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- November 2, 2018
- Citation
- 18146900
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