The Board has denied the Veteran's claims for service connection for various musculoskeletal disabilities, including of the bilateral feet, knees, hips, lumbar spine, and chronic joint pain, as well as peripheral neuropathy. The preponderance of evidence does not support a finding of current disability in any of these conditions.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's service treatment records do not document chronic disabilities during active service, and the Board finds no current diagnoses for the claimed conditions.
- Claimed conditions
- left foot disability, right foot disability, left knee disability, right knee disability, left hip disability, right hip disability, chronic joint pain (to include as secondary to diabetes mellitus type II), lumbar spine disability, left lower extremity peripheral neuropathy (to include as secondary to diabetes mellitus type II), right lower extremity peripheral neuropathy (to include as secondary to diabetes mellitus type II), left upper extremity peripheral neuropathy (to include as secondary to diabetes mellitus type II), right upper extremity peripheral neuropathy (to include as secondary to diabetes mellitus type II)
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 1, 2019
- Citation
- 19124033
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