The Board has determined that the veteran's claims for service connection for residuals of a right shoulder blade injury, low back injury, and left knee injury are not well grounded.
The deciding factor: There is no competent medical evidence to support the veteran's current diagnoses of these conditions.
- Claimed conditions
- right shoulder blade injury, low back injury, left knee injury
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 25, 2000
- Citation
- 0001987
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What this means for you
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What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Dismissed
The veteran's appeal was dismissed as the Board Appeal request was not timely filed.
- Denied
The Board denied service connection for a neck injury, left shoulder injury, and low back injury as the evidence did not support that these conditions began during active service or are otherwise related to an in-service injury or disease.
- Dismissed
The Veteran's appeals for extensions of time to file Board Appeal requests were denied, and the attempted appeals are therefore dismissed.
- Partly granted
The Board dismissed the appeal for service connection for low back injury, denied service connection for sinusitis and allergic rhinitis, and denied a higher disability rating for PTSD. The claim for service connection for pain of left shoulder was remanded.
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