The Board finds that the Veteran's current arthralgia of the right index and middle fingers is likely due to her avulsion injury sustained during service, and grants service connection for this condition.
The deciding factor: Service connection granted based on credible assertions of continuing symptoms and the likelihood that the current arthralgia is a residual of the injury sustained in service.
- Claimed conditions
- arthralgia, avulsion injury
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- January 6, 2011
- Citation
- 1100702
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What this means for you
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What you can do next
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