The Board has granted service connection for residuals of an injury to the low back, including L4-5 disc herniation, finding that these conditions are proximately due to or the result of a service-connected disease or injury.
The deciding factor: The Board found that the January 1997 fall causing the low back injury was caused at least in part by the service connected low back disorder and thus concluded that the residuals of an injury to the low back, including L4-5 disc herniation, are proximately due to or the result of a service-connected disease or injury.
- Claimed conditions
- residuals of an injury to the low back, L4-5 disc herniation
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 20%
- Decision date
- May 15, 2000
- Citation
- 0012815
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