The Board denied the Veteran's claims for service connection for left and right lower extremity disorders, finding no current diagnoses of these conditions.
The deciding factor: The Veteran did not have current diagnoses of his claimed lower extremity disorders as evidenced by lack of clinical findings in VA and private treatment records, and failure to find a diagnosis in the June 2019 VA examination.
- Claimed conditions
- left lower extremity disorder, right lower extremity disorder
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 4, 2019
- Citation
- 19176972
What this means for you
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What you can do next
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