The Board denied service connection for a disability manifested by nausea, numbness of the hands and fingers, and a chronic headache disability with dizziness as these conditions were not shown to be related to active military service.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence did not establish that any of the claimed disabilities had their onset during or was otherwise related to the veteran's period of active duty.
- Claimed conditions
- Nausea, Disability manifested by numbness of the hands and fingers, Chronic headache disability with dizziness
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 1, 2006
- Citation
- 0612550
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