The Board has granted service connection for dizziness as secondary to the Veteran's service-connected PTSD, finding that there is at least equipoise evidence of a relationship between the two conditions.
The deciding factor: The Board found that the Veteran's current diagnosis of dizziness is proximately due to his service-connected PTSD, considering both favorable and unfavorable opinions from VA examiners.
- Claimed conditions
- dizziness
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 15, 2019
- Citation
- 19178347
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.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claim for service connection for dizziness to obtain an adequate medical opinion addressing whether it is related to service or a service-connected disability.
- Partly granted
The Board granted restoration of a 20 percent rating for the service-connected lumbosacral strain, effective May 1, 2023. The other claims were denied.
- Partly granted
The Board granted service connection for dizziness, migraine headaches, right shoulder disability, left shoulder disability, and asthma, secondary to a service-connected condition. The claim for an initial compensable rating for syphilis was denied.
- Partly granted
The Board granted effective dates of May 31, 2023, for the awards of a 10 percent disability rating for rhinitis and a 50 percent disability rating for migraines. The award of service connection for urinary incontinence was denied an earlier effective date.
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