The Board has determined that there is no current diagnosis of muscle damage, and thus the Veteran does not meet the criteria for service connection.
The deciding factor: There is no current evidence of a diagnosed disability of muscle damage to support the claim.
- Claimed conditions
- muscle damage
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 24, 2016
- Citation
- 1607161
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