The Board finds that there is no current evidence of radiculopathy in either upper extremity, and thus service connection for bilateral upper extremity radiculopathy cannot be granted.
The deciding factor: The Veteran does not have a current diagnosis of radiculopathy in either upper extremity, and the VA examinations do not support such a finding.
- Claimed conditions
- radiculopathy of the right upper extremity, raticulopathy of the left upper extremity
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 31, 2015
- Citation
- 1513669
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