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John,
Sorry to say, tremors is not presumptive for Agent Orange exposure. Although Veterans and their doctors often are "sure" their disabilities are related to herbicides, VA only accepts Agent Orange service connection for the diseases the U.S. Government currently acknowledges as being caused by herbicides, based upon scientific and medical studies that have been done. Tremors is not one of them, Parkinson's is.
The U.S. government concedes that spina bifida (a very specific disease, not generic back problems or tumors) may occur in the children of U.S. Veterans who were exposed to herbicides. No other disease for Veteran's children is recognized. The son's spine problems, unless they are spina bifida, are not service-connectable.
Rich
Bruce0712: Its me johnjames, this is from my friend -who works in claims for many years: Can you go back to this doctor and request a Parkinson's exam, not just for tremors? I was looking back 6 years ago at my first exams by a private doctor-who told me it was only tremors-and he was wrong, it was Parkinson's -which now is in stage 4. So I would procure that exam. Let me know if I can help.