The Board denied service connection for obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) due to the lack of a current diagnosis, and remanded the claim for bilateral elbow tendonitis for further development.
The deciding factor: The evidence does not support a current diagnosis of OCD, while an examination is needed to determine if there is a relationship between any elbow condition and service or a service-connected disability.
- Claimed conditions
- bilateral elbow tendonitis, obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD)
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 31, 2025
- Citation
- A25029496
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Decisions by this judge: 964 · Granted: 37% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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