The Board has determined that the veteran's current hand, foot, or leg disorders are not etiologically related to his claimed in-service cold weather exposure and may not be presumed to have been incurred therein.
The deciding factor: There is no medical evidence showing a cold injury during service or any relationship between service and the veteran's current lower extremity disorders.
- Claimed conditions
- residuals of cold injury, injuries to both hands, legs, feet
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 19, 2006
- Citation
- 0611126
What this means for you
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What you can do next
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