The Veteran's service-connected fibromyalgia is not the sole cause of his current left and right shoulder, as well as left and right knee disabilities. The Board has granted service connection for these conditions as separate entities from fibromyalgia.
The deciding factor: The evidence shows that the Veteran had complaints and diagnoses referable to both shoulders and knees during service and that such joint problems continued after his discharge from active duty in September 2010, with findings of degenerative changes on X-rays at the end of the initial post-service year as well as more recently.
- Claimed conditions
- {"condition_name":"Left Shoulder Disability","additional_notes":"Beyond fibromyalgia"}, {"condition_name":"Right Shoulder Disability","additional_notes":"Beyond fibromyalgia"}, {"condition_name":"Left Knee Disability","additional_notes":"Beyond fibromyalgia"}, {"condition_name":"Right Knee Disability","additional_notes":"Beyond fibromyalgia"}
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 10, 2019
- Citation
- 19191914
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What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
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