The Board denied service connection for bilateral ankle, elbow, feet and toe, hip, and shoulder arthritis as the evidence did not establish a relationship to service or a service-connected disability.
The deciding factor: The preponderance of the evidence failed to establish a link between the Veteran's current joint disorders and his active service.
- Claimed conditions
- bilateral ankle arthritis, bilateral elbow arthritis, bilateral feet and toe arthritis, bilateral hip arthritis, bilateral shoulder arthritis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 18, 2019
- Citation
- 19129987
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Decisions by this judge: 2,036 · Granted: 27% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
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- Remanded (sent back)
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