The Board has determined that the veteran's multiple joint pain, including cervical spine and right knee pain, is attributable to service. Service connection for this condition is granted.
The deciding factor: The evidence shows a history of joint pain in service and post-service, with no indication of any other cause for these symptoms.
- Claimed conditions
- multiple joint pain including the cervical spine, right knee, ankles, hands, elbows, shoulders, and hips, lumbar spine pain
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 0%
- Decision date
- July 21, 2000
- Citation
- 0019164
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What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
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