The Board denied service connection for a cervical spine disorder and the petition to reopen a claim of service connection for a left shoulder disorder.,Service connection was not granted as there is no evidence of an in-service injury or disease, and current symptoms are not related to service.
The deciding factor: There is no evidence of an in-service event, injury, or disease that could be linked to the Veteran's current cervical spine arthritis. The left shoulder disorder claim was denied due to lack of new and material evidence within one year of the previous denial.
- Claimed conditions
- Cervical spine arthritis, Left shoulder disorder
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 20%
- Decision date
- April 2, 2014
- Citation
- 1414255
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