The Board denied service connection for bilateral degraded vision and right hand numbness, weakness, and restricted use as there is no current disability related to the Veteran's cervical spine injury. The Veteran has been granted service connection for a cervical spine disability and associated upper extremity radiculopathy.
The deciding factor: There was no diagnosis of a current eye or hand condition by any VA medical examiner, except for refractive errors in the eyes. The Veteran’s cervical spine injury did not result in a current disability related to his claimed conditions.
- Claimed conditions
- bilateral degraded vision, right hand numbness, weakness, and restricted use
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- August 27, 2019
- Citation
- 19165943
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