Dismissed
The Board dismissed all appeals related to service connection for various conditions and an effective date prior to March 13, 2024, for the award of service connection for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
The deciding factor: The Veteran's January 7, 2025, request for both Board review and Higher-Level Review constituted a prohibited concurrent election of the available review options under the Appeals Modernization Act.
- Claimed conditions
- posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), chronic migraine headaches, tinnitus, chronic sinusitis, chronic rhinitis, allergic or non-allergic, urticaria and/or hay fever, neck disability/cervical strain, right shoulder strain, left shoulder strain, asthma, right carpal tunnel syndrome, left carpal tunnel syndrome, low back disability/lumbosacral strain, right sciatic nerve pain, left sciatic nerve pain, right restless leg syndrome, left restless leg syndrome, right knee disability, left knee disability, bilateral shin splints, bilateral plantar fasciitis, fallen arches, and foot pain
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 3, 2025
- Citation
- A25104065
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