The Veteran's service-connected disabilities, including unspecified trauma and stressor related disorder, acromioclavicular separation left shoulder, left achilles tendon rupture, and right achilles tendon rupture, are found to preclude him from obtaining or maintaining substantially gainful employment. The Board granted the TDIU claim based on the benefit-of-the-doubt.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's service-connected disabilities, specifically his unspecified trauma and stressor related disorder, acromioclavicular separation left shoulder, and left and right achilles tendon ruptures, are found to preclude him from re-entering the workforce in a substantially gainful capacity.
- Claimed conditions
- unspecified trauma and stressor related disorder, acromioclavicular separation left shoulder, left achilles tendon rupture, right achilles tendon rupture
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 25, 2019
- Citation
- 19188999
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