The Board has granted service connection for undiagnosed illnesses manifested by left and right calf pain and cramps, finding that the Veteran's symptoms had their onset during his service in the Southwest Asia theater of operations.
The deciding factor: The Board found that the Veteran served in the Gulf War and had objective indications of an undiagnosed illness or medically unexplained chronic multisymptom illness related to his calf symptomatology.
- Claimed conditions
- left calf pain and cramps, right calf pain and cramps
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- Gulf War
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 18, 2018
- Citation
- 18158930
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