The Board has granted the Veteran's claims for service connection for peripheral neuropathy of both lower extremities, finding that it is secondary to his service-connected lumbar strain.
The deciding factor: The evidence was in equipoise as to whether the Veteran’s current peripheral neuropathy of the lower extremities is proximately due to his service-connected lumbar strain.
- Claimed conditions
- peripheral neuropathy, left lower extremity, peripheral neuropathy, right lower extremity
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 11, 2019
- Citation
- 19192965
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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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