The Board has determined that the veteran's claims for service connection for a right hamstring disability and bilateral leg disabilities are not well grounded.,Service connection for osteoarthritis of the cervical spine is granted as it was presumed to have been incurred during active service.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence does not support current diagnoses of the claimed conditions, but there is sufficient evidence to presume that the veteran's arthritis of the cervical spine was incurred during service.
- Claimed conditions
- Right hamstring strain, Bilateral leg injuries (stress fractures), Osteoarthritis of the cervical spine
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 4, 2000
- Citation
- 0009001
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- Granted
The Board has granted service connection for a right hamstring strain and remanded the issue of an evaluation in excess of 10 percent for left hamstring strain.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran's appeal for increased compensation for his service connected right hamstring strain disability was partially granted, with a compensable rating denied prior to March 27, 2023 and a rating in excess of 10 percent denied from that date. The Board also remanded the matter of service connection for a right shoulder disability.
- Denied
The Veteran's appeals for increased ratings for his left and right hamstring strains, as well as service connection for a left wrist disorder, were denied. The Board found that the evidence did not support higher schedular ratings for the hamstrings or establish a current diagnosis of a left wrist disorder.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has determined that additional development is needed for the issues of increased evaluations for service-connected TBI and cervical spine disability, as well as the issue of a total disability rating based on individual unemployability (TDIU). The case will be returned to the Board after completion of this development.
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