The Board has found that the veteran's claims of entitlement to service connection for cervical and thoracic spine disorders, to include degenerative disc disease as secondary to the service-connected low back injury status post L4 to S1 laminectomy and fusion are well grounded. The veteran is entitled to a 20% disability evaluation for his low back injury.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner opined that the veteran's new thoracic and cervical spine pain and vertebral disc pain were related to the development of his postoperative residuals of the L4-S1 laminectomy.
- Claimed conditions
- Cervical Spine Disorder, Thoracic Spine Disorder
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 20%
- Decision date
- April 14, 2000
- Citation
- 0010089
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