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What is Radiculopathy?
Radiculopathy, commonly known as a pinched nerve. It can cause sharp pain, weakness, loss of reflexes, or numbness...
What Is Sciatica And How Can It Affect Your Rating?
Sciatica occurs when the sciatic nerve is irritated, resulting in shooting pain, weakness, tingling, or burning...
Need to Know for a Schizoaffective Disorder Claim
What is Schizoaffective Disorder? Schizoaffective disorder is a chronic mental health condition that is characterized...

Amber Burney’s Honor Flight Experience
I woke up at 2:30am to get ready to accompany Mr. William Brandy to Washington, D.C. Mr. Brady, who told me to call...
Top 3 Tips for Gathering & Submitting Evidence
Gathering and submitting evidence for your claim can be overwhelming! Often, veterans work hard proving their cases...
4 Types of Anxiety Increasingly Impacting Veterans
Anxiety & Veterans Anxiety is the most common health condition for military members. Between 2000 and 2001 the VA...
What You Need To Know About TDIU For Your Claim
What is TDIU? Total disability based on individual unemployability (TDIU) is a form of compensation provided to...
Blue Water Vietnam Claims Delay causes Outrage
What happened? In January, the Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims (CAVC) ruled for a man named Procopio, holding...
Military Sexual Trauma (MST): Myths And Tips For Compensation
A survey conducted by the Department of Defense (DOD) indicated that an estimated 20,500 service members were sexually...
Top 6 PTSD Disability Claim Myths
About 13 million people have been diagnosed with PTSD; despite the large number of people affected, PTSD is still...
Does the Mental Health Diagnosis Impact Your Benefits?
Mental Health Conditions & Veterans Many veterans suffer from a variety of mental health conditions because of...
Global Assessment Functioning: How Does Mental Health Affect You?
What is the GAF Scale? The Global Assessment of Functioning (GAF) scale ranges from 0-100 and measures the extent that...
Sleep Apnea Secondary to PTSD
Studies show that people with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) have a higher risk of developing sleep apnea....
It’s Official: Vietnam Blue Water Navy Veterans Get Agent Orange Presumption
What has been going on? Blue Water Navy Veterans are sailors and Marines who were stationed and served offshore in...
New Research Focuses on Gulf War Illness
Dr. Nicole Baldwin, a University of Minnesota medical student, has written a paper on Gulf War Illness, also referred...
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