The Board found no current diagnosis of a bilateral shoulder disorder or thoracolumbar spine disorder and denied service connection for these conditions.
The deciding factor: There is no evidence of a chronic bilateral shoulder disorder or thoracolumbar spine disorder during service, and the Veteran's post-service treatment records do not show any such disorders. The separation examination did not reveal any current objective factors of either a right or left shoulder disorder or a thoracolumbar spine disorder.
- Claimed conditions
- bilateral shoulder disorder, thoracolumbar spine disorder
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- September 11, 2009
- Citation
- 0934046
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