The Board has determined that the submitted evidence does not bear directly and substantially upon the issue of service connection for body stiffness, to include as secondary to service-connected paranoid schizophrenia. The claim is therefore not reopened.
The deciding factor: The new evidence does not pertain to the evidentiary defects which were the basis for the RO's June 1998 decision regarding service connection for body stiffness.
- Claimed conditions
- body stiffness, residuals of a head injury with memory loss
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- July 3, 2003
- Citation
- 0314770
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