The Board denied a separate compensable rating for muscle injury of the right shoulder related to the service-connected right shoulder disability, finding no current diagnosis or symptoms of such.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner found that the Veteran's pain was a progression of his previous diagnoses and did not constitute a new or separate diagnosis of a muscle injury.
- Claimed conditions
- Right Shoulder Muscle Injury
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 29, 2023
- Citation
- 23068285
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- Granted
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