The Board has granted the Veteran's claim for secondary service connection for acquired psychiatric disorders, including depressive disorder and anxiety disorder, due to chronic pain syndrome associated with his service-connected right and left foot, left ankle, and lumbosacral spine disabilities.
The deciding factor: Competent probative evidence established a link between the Veteran's current psychiatric disorders (depressive disorder and anxiety disorder) and his service-connected orthopedic disabilities of the feet, left ankle, and lumbosacral spine, which were associated with chronic pain syndrome.
- Claimed conditions
- Depressive Disorder, Anxiety Disorder
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- July 16, 2020
- Citation
- 20047782
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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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