Neck / cervical spine decisions — 2025

The Board remands the claim for service connection for degenerative arthritis of the cervical spine to obtain a VA medical opinion regarding direct service connection.

The Board granted service connection and increased ratings for the veteran's cervical strain with degenerative arthritis, lumbosacral strain, migraine headaches, and left and right lower extremity radiculopathies.

The Board denied the Veteran's appeal for an initial rating in excess of 10 percent for cervical strain.

The Board denied service connection for tinnitus, left shoulder strain, and a cervical spine condition as the evidence did not support a finding that these conditions were incurred in or aggravated by active military service.

The Board remands the claims for service connection for cervical spine, right shoulder, right and left hip, and right and left knee disorders as secondary to a back disability due to insufficient evidence regarding their relationship with the back disability.

The Board granted service connection for degenerative arthritis of the spine and sciatic radiculopathy of the left lower extremity as secondary to a service-connected right knee disability, but denied service connection for a cervical spine disability and sleep apnea.

The Board granted a 30 percent rating for the Veteran's service-connected bilateral pes planus from February 18, 1998, to May 28, 2019.

The Board denied service connection for radiculopathy of the left lower extremity, post traumatic pain cervical cervicothoracic regions, and residuals of traumatic brain injury. The initial ratings for various service-connected conditions were also denied.

The Board granted service connection for a cervical spine disability as secondary to a lumbar spine disability on a secondary aggravation basis, but remanded the issue of entitlement to service connection for a cervical spine disability on a basis other than secondary aggravation.

The Board denied a rating in excess of 10 percent for chronic cervical strain, to include degenerative arthritis, degenerative disc disease and spondylolisthesis. The claim for service connection for chronic anemia and chronic kidney disease was remanded.

The veteran has withdrawn the appeal for all service connection claims.

The Board denied earlier effective dates for the awards of service connection and ratings for various conditions, including left knee limitation of extension, left knee (subluxation/instability), left knee degenerative arthritis, cervical spine degenerative arthritis with spondylolisthesis, left upper cervical radiculopathy, and headaches associated with a traumatic brain injury.

The appeals for service connection for right wrist, left wrist, and left knee disorders were dismissed as the Veteran withdrew them. Service connection was denied for cervical spine and thoracolumbar spine disorders due to lack of evidence supporting a causal relationship between the current conditions and military service.

The Board denied service connection for cervical spine disability, left and right upper extremity radiculopathy, lower back disability, left and right lower extremity radiculopathy, and remanded the claim of service connection for migraine headaches.

The Board granted service connection for a cervical spine disability and bilateral hearing loss, while denying service connection for asthma, anxiety disorder, adjustment disorder, depressive disorder, GERD, migraines (also claimed as headaches), insomnia, left hip disability, right hip disability, and plantar fasciitis.

The Board granted service connection for pseudofolliculitis barbae, migraines, hypertension, low back condition, left and right lower extremity radiculopathies as secondary to the low back condition, cervical strain with degenerative changes of the cervical spine, left and right upper extremity radiculopathies as secondary to the cervical strain, left knee degenerative joint disease, right knee condition, left and right ankle conditions.

The Board granted service connection for a back disability and a neck disability, both diagnosed as degenerative arthritis, based on the evidence of continuity of symptomatology since service.

The Board denied service connection for bilateral hearing loss, left shoulder disability, neck disability, and left ankle disability. The claims for right knee, right ankle, back, right hand, left hand, left wrist, right wrist, and right shoulder disabilities were remanded.

The Board granted service connection for degenerative arthritis of the cervical spine, cervical spondylosis, and cervical osteophyte, as well as duodenal ulcers. The remaining claims were denied or remanded.

The Board denied the Veteran's claim for service connection for cervical spine degenerative arthritis, finding that there was no evidence of a current disability in service or within one year of separation from service.