The Board has denied the veteran's claims for service connection for residuals of a cold injury to his upper and lower extremities, finding no evidence of such injuries during active duty service.
The deciding factor: There is no medical evidence showing that the veteran suffered from cold injuries or any related disabilities during his military service.
- Claimed conditions
- residuals of a cold injury, right upper extremity, residuals of a cold injury, left upper extremity, residuals of a cold injury, right lower extremity, residuals of a cold injury, left lower extremity
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- August 31, 2007
- Citation
- 0727491
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- Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran's appeal is remanded due to the failure to perform EMG and nerve conduction studies as requested in previous Board decisions. The issues of increased ratings for bilateral lower extremity cold injury residuals and TDIU are also remanded.
- Granted
The Veteran's service-connected disabilities, including residuals of a cold injury and bilateral hearing loss, combine to at least 40 percent disability. The Board finds that the evidence is in equipoise as to whether the Veteran is unable to secure or follow substantially gainful employment due to his service-connected conditions, thus granting TDIU.
- Denied
The veteran's claimed conditions were not found to be related to service, and thus his claims for service connection were denied.
- Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claims for increased ratings for his service-connected lumbar myositis, psychoneurosis and conversion hysteria, residuals of shrapnel wounds of the left thigh and pelvis with retained foreign bodies and scars, and residuals of shell fragment wounds of the right thigh and left leg. The veteran was also denied entitlement to a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities.
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