The Board found no relationship between the veteran's current nerve damage of the right hand and an injury during active service, and denied both his claim for service connection and his request for a compensable initial disability rating for a scar of the right hand.
The deciding factor: The VA examination did not find any evidence linking the veteran's current nerve damage to the treatment he received in service.
- Claimed conditions
- nerve damage of the right hand, numbness of the right hand
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- July 14, 2006
- Citation
- 0620543
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