The Veteran's claims for increased ratings and service connection were denied. The Board found that the evidence did not support a higher rating or service connection based on the current medical findings.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence did not show any new or material evidence to reopen previously denied claims, nor did it demonstrate symptoms warranting a higher rating under applicable diagnostic codes.
- Claimed conditions
- Chondromalacia of the left knee, Acquired psychiatric disorder (adjustment disorder with depressed mood), Right wrist disability, Scars, residual from plantar wart, plantar surface ball of right lower extremity and residual from plantar wart, plantar surface, left lower extremity, Migraine headaches, Peripheral neuropathy of the medial plantar nerve, mild, right and left lower extremities, Left groin numbness
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 25, 2014
- Citation
- 1418456
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- Dismissed
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- Dismissed
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