The Board granted service connection for a low back disability and an acquired psychiatric disorder, to include anxiety disorder and major depressive disorder, as secondary to the Veteran's status post total hysterectomy.
The deciding factor: The evidence is at least in approximate balance as to whether the Veteran's acquired psychiatric disorder is due to her service-connected status post total hysterectomy, and the low back disability is related to her military service.
- Claimed conditions
- Low back disability, Acquired psychiatric disorder, to include anxiety disorder and major depressive disorder
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- October 15, 2024
- Citation
- A24065536
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.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Granted
The Board granted service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, finding a causal relationship between the condition and an in-service incident of military sexual trauma (MST).
- Denied
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- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the issue of entitlement to service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder due to a pre-decisional duty to assist error.
- Partly granted
The Board granted an effective date of May 29, 2019 for service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder but denied earlier effective dates and increased ratings for other conditions.
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