The Board has determined that the veteran's right shoulder disability is proximately due to or the result of his service-connected left shoulder disability, and thus grants service connection for this condition.
The deciding factor: The evidence is at least in equipoise as to whether the veteran's right shoulder disability is related to his service-connected left shoulder disability, warranting the grant of secondary service connection.
- Claimed conditions
- right shoulder disability
- How they argued it
- Aggravation of a pre-existing condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 2, 2006
- Citation
- 0633864
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