The Board of Veterans' Appeals has determined that the veteran does not have a currently diagnosed disability manifested by muscle pain or multiple joint pain, and therefore, service connection for joint and muscle pain, including as due to an undiagnosed illness, cannot be established.
The deciding factor: There are no objective indications of a chronic disability resulting from the veteran's complaints of muscle and joint pain during or after his service in the Southwest Asia theater of operations.
- Claimed conditions
- joint and muscle pain
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 23, 2004
- Citation
- 0431002
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