The Board denied the veteran's applications to reopen his claims for service connection for generalized body aches, generalized painful joints, extreme fatigue, and numbness of both arms as chronic disabilities resulting from an undiagnosed illness due to lack of new and material evidence.
The deciding factor: The provided evidence was not new and material, failing to present objective indications of chronic disability resulting from an undiagnosed illness.
- Claimed conditions
- generalized body aches, generalized painful joints, extreme fatigue, numbness of both arms
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- September 12, 2003
- Citation
- 0323813
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