The Board has denied the veteran's claims for service connection for fatigue and sleep disturbance, generalized muscle pain, and joint pain of the elbows, left knee, hips, back, hands, and fingers as they are not well-grounded due to lack of objective evidence supporting these conditions.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence does not provide sufficient objective indicators that are perceptible to an examining physician or capable of independent verification for any of the claimed conditions.
- Claimed conditions
- fatigue and sleep disturbance, generalized muscle pain, joint pain of the elbows, left knee, hips, back, hands and fingers
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- July 10, 2000
- Citation
- 0017884
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