The Veteran's current bilateral upper extremity radiculopathy is related to a service-connected disability, and the Board has granted service connection for this condition.
The deciding factor: Service connection was established based on continuity of symptomatology with a pre-existing cervical spine condition that caused radiculopathy in the upper extremities.
- Claimed conditions
- radiculopathy of the upper extremities, bilateral carpal tunnel disability
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 22, 2009
- Citation
- 0919270
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