The Board has granted service connection for the Veteran's right and left wrist disabilities, finding that they are related to his service-connected seizure disorder.
The deciding factor: The Board found credible evidence of wrist injuries sustained during seizures, which is considered a proximate result of the service-connected seizure disability.
- Claimed conditions
- Right wrist disability, Left wrist disability
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 40%
- Decision date
- December 16, 2019
- Citation
- 19194174
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Decisions by this judge: 2,036 · Granted: 27% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
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What this means for you
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