The Board has granted the veteran's claim for service connection for degenerative osteoarthritis of the spine, secondary to a shell fragment wound injury. The effective date is not specified as it was granted on appeal.
The deciding factor: The Board found that the veteran's degenerative osteoarthritis of the spine is at least as likely as not caused by his service-connected residuals of a shell fragment wound injury.
- Claimed conditions
- degenerative osteoarthritis of the spine
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- May 19, 2000
- Citation
- 0013256
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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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