The Board denied service connection for bilateral elbow, ankle, and chest pain disabilities due to a lack of evidence showing current diagnoses or functional impairment.,Service-connected oral facial injury with loss of teeth was rated at 30% but the Veteran requested an increase.
The deciding factor: There is no medical evidence supporting current diagnoses of the claimed conditions.
- Claimed conditions
- Bilateral Elbow Pain, Bilateral Ankle Pain, Chronic Chest Pain
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 4, 2018
- Citation
- 18154887
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