The Board has determined that the veteran's service-connected right shoulder and right elbow disorders do not warrant a rating in excess of 10 percent.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence does not support findings of bursitis or significant joint instability, with no objective findings of restricted motion, pain, weakness, or fatigability. The x-rays show early degenerative changes but no current active inflammation or functional impairment that would warrant a higher rating.
- Claimed conditions
- Right Shoulder Bursitis with Degenerative Joint Disease, Right Elbow Bursitis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- June 24, 2004
- Citation
- 0416655
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Decisions by this judge: 2,977 · Granted: 27% (granted or partly granted, in the indexed decisions on this site)
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