The Board has determined that the veteran does not have a current disability manifested by numbness and tingling of the hands or left leg, and therefore service connection for these conditions is denied.
The deciding factor: There is no clinical evidence of chronic disability manifested by numbness and tingling of the hands or left leg.
- Claimed conditions
- numbness and tingling of the hands, numbness and tingling of the left leg
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- August 17, 2005
- Citation
- 0522470
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