The Board has granted service connection for a right elbow disability, neck disability, and bilateral hand disability on the basis of direct service connection. The Veteran's current right shoulder disability is not found to be related to active service or any incident thereof.
The deciding factor: There is no competent medical evidence linking the Veteran's current right shoulder disability to his active service or any incident thereof, including as secondary to service-connected spondylolisthesis of the lumbosacral spine.
- Claimed conditions
- Right Elbow Disability, Neck Disability, Bilateral Hand Disability
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 11, 2010
- Citation
- 1017377
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