The Board has determined that the Veteran's bilateral neuropathy of the upper extremities is proximately due to, or the result of, her service-connected degenerative disc disease, cervical spine. The claim for secondary service connection is granted.
The deciding factor: The medical opinions provided by Dr. B. K. M. support a causal relationship between the Veteran's bilateral neuropathy and her service-connected cervical spine condition.
- Claimed conditions
- bilateral neuropathy of the upper extremities, cervical disc disease
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- July 11, 2019
- Citation
- 19153357
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Decisions by this judge: 317 · Granted: 19% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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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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