The Board denied service connection for the Veteran's right elbow condition, finding that it is not secondary to his service-connected residuals of fracture of right ring finger and is unrelated to any in-service injury or disease.
The deciding factor: The VA physicians found that the Veteran's right elbow conditions are not caused by or aggravated by his service-connected finger disability.
- Claimed conditions
- right elbow osteoarthritis, epicondylitis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- September 10, 2022
- Citation
- 22051638
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