The Board has determined that the Veteran's bilateral upper extremity arthritis is at least as likely as not related to his military service, and thus grants service connection for this condition.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence supports a finding of service connection based on continuity of symptomatology from inservice injury to current disability.
- Claimed conditions
- bilateral upper extremity arthritis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 7, 2009
- Citation
- 0946410
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What this means for you
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