The Veteran's back disability, sleeping disorder, and headaches are service-connected as they are proximately due to or the result of his service-connected left knee disability.,Service connection for a back disability is granted based on aggravation by the service-connected left knee disability.,Service connection for a sleeping disorder is granted as it is proximately due to the Veteran's service-connected left knee disability and associated pain medication.,Service connection for headaches is granted as they are proximately due to his service-connected tinnitus.
The deciding factor: The VA examiners found that the Veteran’s back, sleep apnea, and headaches were aggravated by his service-connected left knee disability.
- Claimed conditions
- back disability, sleeping disorder, headaches
- How they argued it
- Aggravation of a pre-existing condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- August 22, 2019
- Citation
- 19164882
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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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