The Board has granted service connection for a bladder disability as secondary to the Veteran's service-connected lumbar spine fusion with DDD of the L5-S1, finding that the evidence supports this conclusion and resolving reasonable doubt in favor of the Veteran.
The deciding factor: The Board found that the Veteran's overactive bladder and detrusor-sphincter dyssynergia are etiologically related to his service-connected lumbar spine fusion with DDD of the L5-S1, given the continuity of symptoms and medical opinions supporting this relationship.
- Claimed conditions
- Bladder disability, Overactive bladder, Detrusor-sphincter dyssynergia
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 18, 2022
- Citation
- 22064752
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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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