The Board has granted service connection for right shoulder degenerative joint disease with rotator cuff tendonitis, right elbow osteoarthritis, and right wrist carpal tunnel syndrome as these conditions are found to be aggravated by the Veteran's service-connected right hand ulnar styloid fracture with degenerative arthritis of the carpal bones.
The deciding factor: The Board found that the current diagnoses were caused or aggravated by the service-connected disability based on medical opinions linking the disabilities to the service-connected condition.
- Claimed conditions
- right shoulder degenerative joint disease with rotator cuff tendonitis, right elbow osteoarthritis, right wrist carpal tunnel syndrome
- How they argued it
- Aggravation of a pre-existing condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 31, 2019
- Citation
- 19196864
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Decisions by this judge: 2,088 · Granted: 33% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
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- Granted
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- Dismissed
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- Remanded (sent back)
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