Aggravation · Medical Opinion

Did Service Make a Condition You Already Had Worse?

For a condition you had before you joined that got worse because of your service. Send me the records and I will tell you honestly whether an aggravation opinion will help your claim, before you pay anything.

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A Real Clinician, Not a Claims Company

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I Do the Work Myself

Every record is read by me, and every opinion is written and signed by me personally. There is no staff writer and no middleman between you and the clinician.

02

I Used to Be the Examiner

Three years conducting VA Compensation and Pension examinations. I know how the VA weighs an entrance exam against the service records, and what an aggravation opinion has to establish under 38 CFR 3.306 to carry weight.

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Honest Before You Pay

If the records do not show the condition getting worse because of service, I will tell you before anything is prepared, and you are not charged. I will not take your money for an opinion the VA will not credit.

What the opinion establishes

What an Aggravation Opinion Does

There are two kinds. The first is a condition you had before service that service made worse beyond its natural progress. The second is a condition that is not service connected, made worse by one that is, such as a knee worn down by favoring a service-connected back.

My opinion reviews your records, sets where the condition stood before it got worse, and states whether service, or the service-connected condition, made it worse than it would have become on its own. That is the medical link the VA needs, and the one a lot of denied aggravation claims are missing.

If the condition was not written down on your entrance exam, the VA has to treat you as healthy when you joined, and the claim may need a different kind of opinion. Tell me what your entrance exam shows and I will say so in the free review.

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Example

Sample Aggravation Opinion

Sample opinion. The veteran and all case facts are fictional. This is the aggravation opinion I prepare for veterans whose condition got worse because of service.

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A signed aggravation opinion, a full review of your entrance exam, service treatment records and medical history since, and a statement of whether service made the condition worse beyond its natural progress. Flat $599.

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