The Board has reopened the veteran's claim of entitlement to service connection for a chronic low back disability due to new and material evidence submitted since the March 1982 decision. However, the claim remains denied as there is no credible evidence linking the current condition to active service.
The deciding factor: No medical professional has provided an etiological relationship between the veteran's current lumbosacral spine degenerative disc disease and degenerative joint disease and his inservice lumbar spine paravertebral muscle sprain and/or active service.
- Claimed conditions
- chronic low back disability
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- July 3, 2000
- Citation
- 0017578
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