The Board has denied the veteran's claims for service connection for degenerative muscle disease of the shoulders and arms, hands, and fingers due to a lack of evidence linking these conditions to his military service.
The deciding factor: There is no competent medical evidence in the record relating the veteran's current myotonic dystrophy or degenerative muscle disease of the shoulders and arms, hands, and fingers to service.
- Claimed conditions
- Degenerative muscle disease of the arms, hands, and fingers, Degenerative muscle disease of the shoulders
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 25, 2004
- Citation
- 0407855
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What this means for you
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