The Board has denied the veteran's claims for a compensable initial disability rating for traumatic arthritis of the right shoulder and service connection for numbness in fingertips, right hand.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence does not support granting an increased disability rating or establishing a link between the current symptoms and service-connected conditions.
- Claimed conditions
- Traumatic arthritis of the right shoulder, Vision condition
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- December 7, 2006
- Citation
- 0638063
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 244 · Granted: 30% (granted or partly granted, in the indexed decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
This is a plain-language summary generated by AI from a public Board of Veterans’ Appeals decision. It can contain errors — always verify against the original. Search VA.gov for the original decision (opens in a new tab) using citation 0638063.
What this means for you
A final Board denial may be appealed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims, generally within 120 days of the Board mailing date. A Supplemental Claim with new and relevant evidence is a separate option. Another Higher-Level Review of the Board decision is not available. Check your own notice: this historical decision does not set your deadline.
What you can do next
Use your own notice and decision stage. A remanded issue is not a final court-appealable denial. VA review guidance and CAVC filing instructions (U.S. federal; reviewed October 7, 2026).
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Whole decision: Partly granted
The Board granted a 40 percent rating for L4-L5 space narrowing degenerative arthritis prior to January 14, 2025, and denied higher ratings for the other conditions.
- Whole decision: Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claims for service connection for bilateral hearing loss, an acquired psychological condition, and a vision condition due to incomplete evidence regarding the Veteran's service records.
- Whole decision: Granted
The Board has granted service connection for a heart condition to include a heart murmur, finding that the Veteran's current heart disability is related to his service. However, service connection was denied for a vision condition due to lack of evidence showing an in-service injury or disease.
- Whole decision: Granted
The Veteran's initial ratings for shoulder and elbow residuals of a right brachial plexus injury, hand and wrist residuals of a right brachial plexus injury, and traumatic arthritis of the right shoulder have been upheld. The Veteran is now rated at 70 percent for hand and wrist residuals of a right brachial plexus injury from March 15, 2016.
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