The Board finds that the Veteran's current complaints of joint pain are not related to his active service and does not warrant service connection for arthritis, multiple joints.
The deciding factor: There is no medical evidence linking the Veteran's current symptoms of joint pain with his active service or within one year of separation from service.
- Claimed conditions
- arthritis, multiple joints
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- July 26, 2011
- Citation
- 1127935
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- Dismissed
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- Remanded (sent back)
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- Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran's appeal is being remanded for further development, including scheduling a VA examination to evaluate his service-connected arthritis, multiple joints. The case will be returned to the Board after this additional development.
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