The Veteran's claim for a compensable rating for musculoskeletal chest wall pain was denied as the condition is primarily manifested by rare episodes of pain and pressure in the chest with dizziness, occurring infrequently.
The deciding factor: The symptoms were not shown to be severe enough to warrant a compensable rating under the applicable criteria.
- Claimed conditions
- musculoskeletal chest wall pain
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- February 27, 2009
- Citation
- 0907491
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 425 · Granted: 21% (granted or partly granted, in the indexed decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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What this means for you
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What you can do next
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Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Whole decision: Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the Veteran's claims for service connection for musculoskeletal chest wall pain, hypertension, and diabetes mellitus type II (DM) due to insufficient medical opinions addressing whether these conditions are secondary to his service-connected psychiatric disorder, lumbar and cervical spine disorders, or obesity.
- Whole decision: Granted
The Board has reopened the claim for service connection for musculoskeletal chest wall pain, to include costochondritis, and finds that new and material evidence has been received. The Veteran is granted service connection for her diagnosed costochondritis as it is a continuation of the same diagnosis noted in service.
- Whole decision: Granted
The Board has reopened the claim for service connection for thrombophlebitis of the left leg and granted it. The veteran's current musculoskeletal chest wall pain is also considered as a result of his active military service.
- Whole decision: Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claims for increased ratings for his service-connected lumbar myositis, psychoneurosis and conversion hysteria, residuals of shrapnel wounds of the left thigh and pelvis with retained foreign bodies and scars, and residuals of shell fragment wounds of the right thigh and left leg. The veteran was also denied entitlement to a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities.
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