The Board has denied the Veteran's claims for service connection for residuals of a head injury, bilateral hearing loss, right hip disability, left hip disability, neck disability, and low back disability. The decision also remanded the claim for service connection for a left eye disability.
The deciding factor: The evidence does not establish that any of the claimed conditions are related to active service or boxing during service.
- Claimed conditions
- residuals of a head injury, post-concussive syndrome, chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE)
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 6, 2023
- Citation
- 23064625
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Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Granted
The Veteran's chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) is found to be related to his in-service boxing career and service connection for CTE is granted.
- Denied
The Board denied service connection for various conditions, including residuals of a head injury, bilateral hearing loss, neck disability, gout of the right ankle, unspecified trauma or stress related disorder, tinnitus, and other musculoskeletal issues.
- Dismissed
The veteran's appeal requests for extensions to file an appeal on various rating decisions were denied, and the attempted appeals are dismissed.
- Denied
The Board denied service connection for residuals of a back injury, head injury, and neck injury as the evidence did not support that these injuries occurred during or while traveling from active duty.
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