The Board has granted service connection for numbness of the hands, chest condition/tightness in the chest, and numbness in the legs as due to undiagnosed illnesses incurred during military service.
The deciding factor: The veteran's symptoms were attributed to undiagnosed illnesses that manifested during his service in the Southwest Asia theater of operations.
- Claimed conditions
- numbness of the hands, chest condition/tightness in the chest, numbness in the legs
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- August 20, 2008
- Citation
- 0828322
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What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
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