The veteran's joint pain, including in the ankles, knees, hips, shoulders, and wrists, is found to be due to an undiagnosed illness related to her service in the Persian Gulf. Service connection for these conditions is granted.
The deciding factor: Objective indications of chronic disability (joint pain) were found that cannot be attributed to any known clinical diagnosis.
- Claimed conditions
- joint pain, pain of the ankles, pain of the knees, pain of the hips, pain of the shoulders, pain of the wrists
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 11, 2005
- Citation
- 0503765
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What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
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