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Curious about a supplemental claim I submitted. I submitted 62 pages worth of inservice and post service documents to support cervical radiculopathy the other day. When I checked today they are also reviewing my surgery scars. I’m confused about this? The effective date for those is back in 2015. Is that rating not protected?

(I’m not worried about being reduced for it because my scars are 14 inches on my chest and 7 inches on my hip. Just curious about the whole “10 year rule” thing.

Hello everyone. I'm in the middle of something and was looking for some advice. I promise that I've done some research, but have become a bit confused so looking for other opinions.

Story - I fell and shattered my collar bone during training while active duty. I had no medical intervention other than being sent home for it to heal on its own. I was sent to Afghanistan a two months later without being fully healed and wearing all of my gear caused many more issues seeing as I had a collar bone that wasn't in tact. I ended up getting sent home and having two surgeries to reconstruct it. When I was going through all of this I kept complaining about my neck, shoulder and numbness running all the way down my arm. My pinky and ring fingers are fairly numb 80% of the day. When I was getting out over a decade ago and doing my transition I was denied the claim for the numbness that I have in my dominant arm/hand. I will admit that I did not know what I was doing back then and I didn't submit any documents with it because I thought my VSO was doing that for me. It has been almost a decade and the issue is much worse now. I am rated for my shoulder and my neck, but I have not done anything about the numbness issue. I went through all 1250 pages of my medical records and have printed off complaints of the issue from now all the way back to 2013 when I came back from deployment.

Question - Am I submitting a supplemental claim for this or a new claim altogether?

Attached are some small photos of the medial documents (I have almost 40 pages for this one issue). I have been diagnosed with cervical radiculopathy, cubital tunnel, and carpal tunnel. I am unsure if those fall under my original denial or not.

Picture 1 - Original claim denial
Picture 2 - MRI results
Picture 3 - EMG nerve results
Picture 4 - One of few diagnosis

If you took the time to read all of this and provide some feedback, I appreciate you more than you know!