The Board has granted service connection for a disability manifested by earaches, finding that the osteomas resulting in ear pain are likely due to the use of hearing aids to treat his service-connected bilateral hearing loss.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner determined that the Veteran's osteomas resulting in ear pain were more likely caused by the use of hearing aids for his service-connected hearing loss.
- Claimed conditions
- Earaches, Osteomas
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 22, 2021
- Citation
- 21009291
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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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- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the appeal due to insufficient evidence regarding the Veteran's claimed conditions and their relationship to service. The issues of service connection for various disabilities are being reviewed.
- Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's claims for service connection for ear infections and/or cholesteatoma, earaches, and a peripheral vestibular disorder (claimed as loss of balance and motion sickness), all secondary to residuals of his left tympanic membrane perforation.
- Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claims for service connection for various conditions, including hearing loss, earaches, back disorder, fatigue, memory loss, joint pain, nervousness and dreams, weakness, skin rashes, chest pain, blurred vision, neck stiffness, and sinus symptoms as manifestations of an undiagnosed illness.
- Granted
The Board has determined that the Veteran's headaches are at least as likely as not caused by his service-connected traumatic brain injury, and thus grants service connection for this condition.
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