The Board has granted service connection for cerebellar ataxia as secondary to seizures, but denied the reopening of the claim for generalized musculoskeletal pain.
The deciding factor: The evidence shows that the Veteran's cerebellar ataxia is related to his service-connected seizures and TBI, which raises a reasonable possibility of substantiating the claim.
- Claimed conditions
- Generalized Musculoskeletal Pain, Cerebellar Ataxia
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- June 25, 2020
- Citation
- 20042989
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- Remanded (sent back)
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