The Veteran's claimed joint disability and skin disorder are not service-connected due to lack of objective indications of a chronic disability.
The deciding factor: The VA examination did not find any objective signs or symptoms that meet the criteria for a qualifying chronic disability under 38 C.F.R. § 3.317, including undiagnosed illness or medically unexplained multi-symptom illnesses.
- Claimed conditions
- Joint Disability (claimed as fibromyalgia/chronic fatigue syndrome), Skin Disorder
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 2, 2012
- Citation
- 1208073
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