The Board has granted the Veteran's request to reopen her claim for service connection for bilateral dequervain’s tenosynovitis and has also granted service connection for this condition. However, it denied service connection for depression and anxiety as there was no evidence linking these conditions to her military service.
The deciding factor: The Board found new and relevant evidence that linked the Veteran's current diagnosis of bilateral dequervain’s tenosynovitis to her in-service symptoms and treatment, but did not find a link between her depression and anxiety and her active duty service.
- Claimed conditions
- bilateral dequervain’s tenosynovitis, depression, anxiety
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 20, 2019
- Citation
- A19002999
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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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