The Board has granted service connection for multiple sclerosis, finding that the Veteran's symptoms manifested to a degree of 10% or more within seven years of separation from service. Service connection was denied for a right shoulder condition.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence established that the Veteran had multiple sclerosis which manifested during the applicable presumptive period and provided a nexus opinion linking his current disability to service.
- Claimed conditions
- right shoulder condition, multiple sclerosis
- How they argued it
- Presumptive (no nexus needed)
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 15, 2019
- Citation
- 19132385
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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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