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Heads UP – Episode 97: Veterans and Headache Disorders

Dr. Lindsay Weitzel welcomes Dr. Jan Lewis Brandes for this special edition of Heads UP to discuss veterans' issues, post-traumatic…

2 years ago

Panel Application; section 1155 directs the Secretary to establish in the rating schedule “ten grades of disability” for evaluating the severity of such conditions, the Secretary has provided less than ten levels of disability for most of the conditions listed in the schedule. See generally 38 C.F.R. §§ 4.71a – 4.150 (1992). Therefore, the schedular ratings established by the Secretary for compensation purposes may not in all cases provide a sufficiently comprehensive basis for determining when a measured worsening of a particular veteran’s condition in service constitutes an “increase in disability” for purposes of establishing service connection through aggravation under section 1153. This would seem to be so where the next higher rating is more than one decile greater. Furthermore, the rating-schedule provisions may not in all cases provide the most accurate or most logical basis for determining whether there has been an “increase in disability” during service. For example, with respect to organic mental disorders and psychoneurotic disorders, the rating schedule provides for disability ratings based on a finding that the condition causes “total”, “severe”, “considerable”, “definite”, or “mild” social and industrial impairment. See 38 C.F.R. § 4.132, Diagnostic Codes 9300-9411 (1992);

[ad_1] Panel Application; section 1155 directs the Secretary to establish in the rating schedule “ten grades of disability” for…

3 years ago

Clemons v Shinseki is way more than just mental health disorders

[ad_1] Hi All,Long story short: Filed a claim for an increase in October 2014 at the advice of two other…

3 years ago

The US Govt. should investigate links between mental health disorders of Post-9/11 Vets; our gut biomes; and possible sources of exposure (burn pits). : Veterans

[ad_1] I am not any sort of scientific or medical expert. However, I have been reading a lot recently on…

3 years ago