The Board denied the veteran's petition to reopen his claim of service connection for a musculoskeletal disability, finding that the new evidence submitted did not bear directly and substantially upon the specific matter under consideration.
The deciding factor: The newly submitted evidence does not provide competent medical evidence of a nexus between rheumatic fever and any orthopedic or neurological disorders.
- Claimed conditions
- musculoskeletal disability, rheumatic fever
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 23, 2008
- Citation
- 0802534
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