The Board has determined that the Veteran's current peripheral vestibular disorder, including motion sickness, is related to her service and grants service connection for this condition.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner provided a positive opinion linking the Veteran's current symptoms of a peripheral vestibular disorder (motion sickness) to an in-service event, supporting the grant of service connection.
- Claimed conditions
- peripheral vestibular disorder, motion sickness
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 11, 2018
- Citation
- 18156802
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- Granted
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- Denied
The Board denied service connection for broken jaw/TMJ, motion sickness, right knee pain, right shin pain, left ankle pain, bilateral pes planus, and left buttock pain as there is no evidence of current disabilities.
- Granted
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