The Board found that the veteran does not currently have numbness in his left or right hand, and thus denied service connection for these conditions.
The deciding factor: There is no current diagnosis of numbness in either hand, and the evidence did not support a secondary service connection based on Reiter's syndrome.
- Claimed conditions
- numbness, left hand, numbness, right hand
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 8, 2008
- Citation
- 0804513
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