The Board denied the veteran's claims for increased ratings and earlier effective dates, but granted service connection for Dupuytren's contracture of the bilateral hands as secondary to a service-connected disability.
The deciding factor: The evidence did not support higher ratings or earlier effective dates due to insufficient severity, duration, and frequency of psychiatric symptoms, while the Veteran's Dupuytren's contracture was found to be proximately caused by his service-connected amputation.
- Claimed conditions
- other specified trauma- and stressor-related disorder; unspecified depressive disorder; and opioid use disorder associated with the amputation of the middle or lower thirds of the right leg, residuals of an injury, fracture of the coccyx associated with the amputation of the middle or lower thirds of the right leg, Dupuytren's contracture of the bilateral hands
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- June 17, 2025
- Citation
- A25052978
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Decisions by this judge: 715 · Granted: 43% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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