The Board finds that there is no evidence of a diagnosed upper extremity disorder or attributable symptomatology during the period of this claim, and thus service connection for numbness in the upper extremities cannot be granted.
The deciding factor: There is no medical evidence linking the Veteran's intermittent upper extremity symptoms to any disease or injury incurred or aggravated by his active service.
- Claimed conditions
- numbness in the upper extremities
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 28, 2013
- Citation
- 1334189
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