The Board has determined that the claim for service connection of the residuals of an injury to the right upper extremity is not well grounded, as there is no competent medical evidence showing a nexus between the current disability and the in-service injury.
The deciding factor: The veteran's statements regarding his injuries during service are not probative due to lack of contemporaneous medical evidence supporting such claims.
- Claimed conditions
- degenerative joint disease of the acromioclavicular joint
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 18, 2000
- Citation
- 0004347
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