The Board denied service connection for a disorder manifested by groin pain and a right shoulder disability, finding no current diagnosis of the claimed conditions and no evidence linking them to the Veteran's military service.
The deciding factor: The August 2025 VA examiner concluded that there was no current diagnosis of a groin condition or functional impairment related to reported groin pain. For the right shoulder, the examiner opined that the disability was less likely than not incurred in or caused by the Veteran's military service due to the lack of evidence of an injury during service and the timing of the rotator cuff surgery decades after separation.
- Claimed conditions
- groin pain, right shoulder disability (degenerative joint disease)
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 10, 2025
- Citation
- 25013833
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 1,726 · Granted: 19% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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