The Board found new and material evidence to reopen claims for service connection of right shoulder, knee, and ankle disorders. However, it determined that the submitted evidence did not meet the criteria for reopening claims for service connection of right knee and right ankle disorders.
The deciding factor: The new medical records consistently relate the symptoms in the veteran's entire right leg to non-service-connected neurological disorders (diabetes mellitus, lumbar spinal stenosis, and diskogenic lumbar spondylosis) rather than any aspect of his service or a service-connected disorder.
- Claimed conditions
- Right Shoulder Disorder, Right Knee Disorder, Right Ankle Disorder
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- September 18, 2000
- Citation
- 0024796
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