The Board granted service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder as secondary to the Veteran's service-connected lumbar spine and sciatica conditions, but denied service connection for asthma and bilateral hearing loss. The claims for a right hip condition, left hip condition, and plantar fasciitis were remanded.
The deciding factor: The Board found that the evidence was approximately balanced as to whether the Veteran's current acquired psychiatric condition is proximately due to his service-connected lower back and sciatica conditions, but did not find sufficient evidence of a current diagnosis of asthma or hearing loss disability. The claims for right hip, left hip, and plantar fasciitis were remanded due to insufficient medical opinions.
- Claimed conditions
- Acquired psychiatric disorder, Asthma, Bilateral hearing loss, Left hip condition, Plantar fasciitis, Right hip condition
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 4, 2025
- Citation
- A25019508
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Decisions by this judge: 869 · Granted: 44% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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