The Board has granted service connection for the Veteran's right index finger disability, finding that it began during service and is related to his military service. The Veteran also received increased ratings for his trigger fingers.
The deciding factor: The Board found that symptoms of clicking in the right index finger during service progressed into current tenosynovitis, which remains symptomatic post-surgery.
- Claimed conditions
- Right index finger, Left ring finger, Right thumb
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- June 19, 2009
- Citation
- 0923135
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What this means for you
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Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Whole decision: Granted
The Board has granted service connection for disabilities of the right little finger, ring finger, middle finger, index finger, and thumb. The decision is based on the Veteran's credible account of having hand problems during and since service.
- Whole decision: Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran's appeal is remanded due to the need for further evaluation regarding his entitlement to higher levels of SMC and a rating increase for his residual left knee injury. The Board found that he does not meet the legal criteria for SMC under 38 U.S.C. § 1114(o) based on the lack of anatomical loss or use in his feet, hands, or eyes.
- Whole decision: Denied
The Board denied initial compensable evaluations for the service-connected left wrist, right wrist, and right thumb disabilities due to lack of evidence showing limitation of motion or other functional impairment that would warrant a higher rating.
- Whole decision: Denied
The Board found that the December 1947 and October 1964 rating decisions did not contain clear and unmistakable error in denying a compensable evaluation for service-connected disability of the right index finger, and the October 1954 rating decision did not contain CUE in reducing the rating to a noncompensable evaluation.
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