The Board has granted the veteran's claims for service connection for right shoulder disability, asthma, and chronic sinusitis. The rating assigned for right shoulder disability is 20 percent. Service connection for migraine headaches and organic disability manifested by chronic abdominal pain remains in controversy.
The deciding factor: The evidence supports a 20% rating for the service-connected right shoulder disability due to its functional impairment and limitation of motion, but not arthritis or other specific diagnoses.
- Claimed conditions
- right shoulder disability, asthma, chronic sinusitis, organic disability manifested by chronic abdominal pain, migraine headaches
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 20%
- Decision date
- May 24, 2000
- Citation
- 0013736
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What this means for you
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- Partly granted
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