The veteran's claims for various disabilities, including those related to his service in the Southwest Asia theater of operations during the Persian Gulf War, have been denied as there is no evidence of current disability or chronicity that can be attributed to any undiagnosed illness.
The deciding factor: There are no objective indications of a chronic disability manifested by the claimed conditions in service or since service, and they cannot be attributed to an undiagnosed illness.
- Claimed conditions
- Arthralgias of the bilateral knee, Arthralgias of the bilateral shoulder, Neuralgias of the bilateral elbows, wrists, and fingers, Arthralgia of the cervical spine, Lumbar spine disability, Hyperkeratosis of the bilateral elbows with multiple keloids and pruritus, Sleep impairment, Chronic fatigue disorder
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 31, 2000
- Citation
- 0014241
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