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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What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
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