The Veteran's arthritis of the right and left thumbs is related to his active duty service, and the Board has granted service connection for this condition.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner found it was 'at least likely as not' that the bilateral phalangeal joint degeneration was related to service.
- Claimed conditions
- arthritis of the right thumb, arthritis of the left thumb
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 12, 2013
- Citation
- 1340970
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