The Board has determined that the Veteran's current bilateral shoulder disabilities are not related to his active service or any service-connected disability, and thus denied both claims for service connection.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner found no evidence of a chronic right shoulder condition related to the Veteran's military service and noted that the Veteran's use of a jackhammer for work as a heavy laborer and continued interest in weight lifting likely contributed to his current diagnoses of osteoarthritis in the left shoulder and degenerative joint disease in the right shoulder.
- Claimed conditions
- Left Shoulder Osteoarthritis, Right Shoulder Degenerative Joint Disease
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 1, 2014
- Citation
- 1452767
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