The Board has determined that the Veteran's left wrist disability is related to his military service and grants service connection for this condition.
The deciding factor: The evidence shows continuity of symptomatology from service, including diagnoses of bilateral wrist synovitis and left wrist tendonitis.
- Claimed conditions
- Left Wrist Pain
- How they argued it
- Presumptive (no nexus needed)
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- March 19, 2010
- Citation
- 1010615
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What this means for you
A grant means the Board allowed the benefit or issue identified in this decision. Review the original order: other issues in the same appeal may have a different outcome, and this decision does not predict another claim.
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: Partly granted
The Board granted service connection for an acquired psychiatric disability, to include GAD and depressive disorder, as well as a cervical spine disability, right wrist pain, and left wrist pain. However, the claims for lumbar spine pain were denied.
- Whole decision: Granted
The Board has granted service connection for right knee pain and dysfunction, low back pain and dysfunction, left wrist pain and dysfunction, PTSD, and MDD. The conditions are deemed to be directly related to the Veteran's military service.
- Whole decision: Remanded (sent back)
The Board has decided to remand three issues related to the Veteran's right shoulder, right wrist, and left wrist pain. The reasons for this are that there is conflicting medical evidence regarding whether these conditions may be due to an undiagnosed illness or service connection.
- Whole decision: Dismissed
The Veteran's claim for an earlier effective date for diabetes mellitus type II with erectile dysfunction was denied as the evidence did not show that he had been diagnosed and manifested to at least a 10 percent disability rating on or prior to May 8, 2001.
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