The Board has determined that new and material evidence has been submitted to reopen the veteran's claims for service connection for residuals of right and left wrist injuries. The claims are now reopened.
The deciding factor: New and material evidence, including VA treatment records and the veteran's statements, raises a reasonable possibility of substantiating the claim.
- Claimed conditions
- residuals of a right wrist injury, residuals of a left wrist injury
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- July 20, 2006
- Citation
- 0621352
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Decisions by this judge: 1,242 · Granted: 26% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
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