The Board finds that the evidence does not support a finding of service connection for Parkinson's disease, residuals of injury to right leg, hip, and side, or idiopathic tremors of the right upper and lower extremities.
The deciding factor: There is no competent medical evidence linking any of these conditions to service or to continuity of symptomatology since service.
- Claimed conditions
- Parkinson's disease, residuals of injury to right leg, hip, and side, idiopathic tremors of the right upper and lower extremities
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- September 18, 2006
- Citation
- 0629457
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What this means for you
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- Dismissed
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- Granted
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- Granted
The Board granted an effective date of August 25, 2016 for the award of service connection for Parkinson's disease.
- Denied
The Board denied service connection for Parkinson's disease as the evidence did not support a finding that it began during or is otherwise related to active service.
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