The Veteran's claim for service connection for bilateral tendonitis was denied as there is no current diagnosis of the condition.
The deciding factor: There is no competent evidence of a diagnosed disability at any time since the filing of the current claim.
- Claimed conditions
- bilateral tendonitis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- July 11, 2017
- Citation
- 1726288
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- Remanded (sent back)
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