The Board has granted service connection for residuals of cold weather trauma to both the right and left hands.
The deciding factor: Service records show no treatment or diagnosis related to cold weather injuries, but the VA examination linked current hand conditions to service in Korea.
- Claimed conditions
- residuals of cold weather trauma, right hand, residuals of cold weather trauma, left hand
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 12, 2006
- Citation
- 0614071
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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.
What you can do next
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- Remanded (sent back)
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