The Board has reopened the Veteran's claim for service connection for a back disorder and granted it. Service connection was also granted for cervical strain and left neural foraminal stenosis, but radiculopathy of the right and left upper extremities remains unresolved.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner found no current diagnosis of radiculopathy in the Veteran's right or left upper extremities, which is contrary to earlier reports from a chiropractor. The Board finds that further examination is needed to determine if the Veteran has such a condition and its relationship to her service-connected cervical strain and left neural foraminal stenosis.
- Claimed conditions
- back disorder, cervical strain, left neural foraminal stenosis
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 23, 2019
- Citation
- 19196020
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Decisions by this judge: 1,037 · Granted: 21% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
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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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- Granted
The Veteran's service connection claims for various conditions were granted effective from July 1, 2020.
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