The Veteran's right shoulder disorder was not incurred or aggravated by service, and the Board finds that it is not related to his service-connected degenerative disc disease of the lumbar spine.
The deciding factor: There is no evidence of a right shoulder disorder during service, and current right rotator cuff tendonitis is not shown to be causally related to service-connected degenerative disc disease of the lumbar spine.
- Claimed conditions
- Right rotator cuff tendonitis
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 17, 2012
- Citation
- 1242939
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