The Board has determined that the appellant's service-connected right hand disability is the cause of her RSD in the right upper extremity, and thus grants secondary service connection for RSD.
The deciding factor: Service connection was granted based on the finding that the appellant's current RSD is a result of her pre-existing right hand disability (service-connected ganglion excision post-operative residuals).
- Claimed conditions
- reflex sympathetic dystrophy (RSD)
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 24, 2009
- Citation
- 0915537
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