The Board granted service connection for a left shoulder disability, finding it related to the Veteran's service-connected right shoulder disability. The back disability claim was denied.
The deciding factor: The May 2024 examiner concluded that there is no current left shoulder disorder but did find evidence of a left shoulder strain due to an in-service injury and linked this condition to the service-connected right shoulder disability, while the back disability was not shown to be related to any in-service event or service-connected disability.
- Claimed conditions
- left shoulder disability, back disability
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 18, 2025
- Citation
- 25002265
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