The Board found that there is no current evidence of a right hand or bilateral wrist disability, and the preponderance of the evidence does not support service connection for these conditions. The Veteran's complaints were attributed to overuse or early osteoarthritis.
The deciding factor: There was no objective indication of chronic disability related to an undiagnosed illness or medically unexplained multisymptom illness in either wrist, and the preponderance of evidence did not support service connection for these conditions.
- Claimed conditions
- Right Hand Disability, Bilateral Wrist Disability
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- September 25, 2017
- Citation
- 1742100
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