The Board has denied the veteran's claim for a rating in excess of 10 percent for residuals of his left thumb injury and service connection for left wrist medial nerve compression with left hand numbness, finding that new and material evidence was not submitted to reopen these claims.
The deciding factor: The additional evidence received since the February 1996 RO decision did not provide a clear link between the veteran's current symptoms and his service-connected left thumb injury or establish that he had left wrist medial nerve compression with left hand numbness incurred in service.
- Claimed conditions
- Left Thumb Injury, Left Wrist Medial Nerve Compression with Left Hand Numbness
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 27, 2005
- Citation
- 0502034
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 684 · Granted: 25% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
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