The Board has determined that the submitted evidence is not new and material to reopen the claims of service connection for bilateral arm and wrist disabilities. The Veteran's current diagnoses do not relate to his service or a service-connected disability.
The deciding factor: The newly submitted medical records are cumulative of those considered at the time of the last final decision on these issues, and none of the new evidence includes competent evidence which relates any currently diagnosed bilateral arm or wrist disabilities to service or to a service-connected disability.
- Claimed conditions
- Bilateral Arm Disorder, Bilateral Wrist Disorder
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- June 24, 2013
- Citation
- 1320298
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