The Board has determined that there is no current diagnosis of a bilateral wrist disability, elbow disability, or joint pain in the fingers. Therefore, service connection for these conditions is denied.
The deciding factor: There is no evidence of a current disability related to the claimed conditions.
- Claimed conditions
- bilateral wrist disability, bilateral elbow disability, joint pain in the fingers
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- May 6, 2009
- Citation
- 0917045
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What this means for you
A final Board denial may be appealed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims, generally within 120 days of the Board mailing date. A Supplemental Claim with new and relevant evidence is a separate option. Another Higher-Level Review of the Board decision is not available. Check your own notice: this historical decision does not set your deadline.
What you can do next
Use your own notice and decision stage. A remanded issue is not a final court-appealable denial. VA review guidance and CAVC filing instructions (U.S. federal; reviewed October 7, 2026).
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Whole decision: Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the claims for bilateral hearing loss, tinnitus, back disability, neck disability, bilateral foot disability, bilateral shin disability, bilateral shoulder disability, and bilateral wrist disability due to a failure to provide proper notice of the right to a hearing before the RO.
- Whole decision: Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran's claims for service connection have been remanded due to insufficient evidence of a current disability in some cases and the need for further medical evaluation in others.
- Whole decision: Denied
The Board denied service connection for a bilateral elbow disability, bilateral ankle disability, and skin disability due to insufficient evidence of current disabilities.
- Whole decision: Denied
The Board has denied the Veteran's claim for service connection for a bilateral wrist disability, finding that her current diagnosis of De Quervain tenosynovitis is not related to an in-service injury or disease and is not caused by or aggravated by her service-connected psychiatric disability.
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