The Board has denied the Veteran's claims for service connection for bilateral trigger fingers, bilateral hand arthritis, and bilateral wrist arthritis, finding that there is no evidence of their onset during service or a nexus to service.
The deciding factor: The VA examiners found no evidence of symptoms within one year of discharge and opined that the disabilities are more likely due to age rather than service.
- Claimed conditions
- bilateral trigger fingers, bilateral hand arthritis, bilateral wrist arthritis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 21, 2020
- Citation
- 20068256
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 2,500 · Granted: 29% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
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