The Board granted service connection for a chronic headache disability and calcaneal spur of the left ankle with sprain, both as secondary to the Veteran's service-connected conditions.
The deciding factor: The evidence supports that the current disabilities are proximately due to or aggravated by the service-connected conditions based on medical opinions and credible statements from the Veteran.
- Claimed conditions
- chronic headache disability, calcaneal spur of the left ankle with sprain
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 1, 2020
- Citation
- 20063970
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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