The Board has determined that new and material evidence has not been received to reopen the veteran's claims for service connection of a right shoulder disorder, but has found new and material evidence in support of his claim for degenerative joint disease of the lumbosacral spine. The Board is unable to determine if the current back condition is related to military service.
The deciding factor: The submitted evidence does not raise a reasonable possibility of substantiating the claims as it fails to show a current right shoulder disorder or provide competent medical evidence linking the veteran's current degenerative joint disease to his military service.
- Claimed conditions
- Degenerative Joint Disease, Lumbosacral Spine, Chronic Right Shoulder Disorder
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 18, 2008
- Citation
- 0809030
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