The Board has granted service connection for left shoulder impingement syndrome, finding that the veteran's symptoms are at least in equipoise with the need to grant this claim. Service connection for residuals of a cervical spine injury was denied.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner concluded that it is less likely than not that the current left shoulder impingement syndrome began during active service due to the veteran's failure to list his left shoulder as an issue in his January 1995 claim, which he later re-submitted in June 1995.
- Claimed conditions
- residuals of a cervical spine injury, left shoulder disability
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- September 12, 2008
- Citation
- 0831122
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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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