The Board granted service connection for left and right carpal tunnel, pain of the right wrist and hand, carpal tunnel syndrome of the left upper extremity, bilateral leg condition, including pain, sciatic radicular pain, hypoesthesia, and paresthesia. The claims for service connection for bilateral hearing loss, chronic fatigue syndrome, headaches disability, and a 10 percent rating for sinusitis were denied.
The deciding factor: The Board granted the claims based on evidence supporting the onset of symptoms during active military service or a causal relationship to an in-service injury, event, or disease. The denial was due to insufficient evidence linking the claimed conditions to service.
- Claimed conditions
- left and right carpal tunnel, right cubital tunnel (claimed as tremors of the hands-bilateral), pain of right wrist and hand, carpal tunnel syndrome, left upper extremity, bilateral leg condition, including pain, sciatic radicular pain, hypoesthesia, and paresthesia
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 30, 2025
- Citation
- A25111123
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 2,188 · Granted: 23% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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What this means for you
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Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the claims for service connection for carpal tunnel syndrome in both upper extremities due to insufficient medical opinion regarding the etiology of the condition.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has decided to remand the claims for service connection for carpal tunnel syndrome in both upper extremities, as they are related to a service-connected back disability. The VA examiner is required to provide an opinion on whether the Veteran's service-connected back disability aggravated his bilateral carpal tunnel syndrome.
- Dismissed
The Board dismissed the appeal for service connection of carpal tunnel syndrome in both upper extremities as the Veteran withdrew the issue.
- Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's claim for service connection for carpal tunnel syndrome, left upper extremity, as there was no credible evidence that it began during active service or was related to an in-service injury.
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