The Board has granted service connection for left shoulder numbness, right shoulder numbness, left arm numbness, right arm numbness, left hand numbness, and right hand numbness. The decision is based on the Veteran's competent and credible statements of intermittent pain, numbness, and tingling from separation.
The deciding factor: The Board found that the Veteran's symptoms were related to service due to his competent and credible statements of continuous symptomatology since separation.
- Claimed conditions
- left shoulder numbness, right shoulder numbness, left arm numbness, right arm numbness, left hand numbness, right hand numbness
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 16, 2022
- Citation
- 22064100
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