The Board denied the veteran's claims for service connection for right arm and right leg disabilities, finding no competent medical evidence linking these conditions to his service-connected lumbosacral strain.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner found that the veteran's numbness in his right arm was not caused by his low back disability and there were no diagnoses of a right leg disability in the medical records.
- Claimed conditions
- Right Arm Disability, Right Leg Disability
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- August 8, 2003
- Citation
- 0319508
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