The Board has granted service connection for degenerative joint disease of the cervical and lumbar spines, but denied service connection for generalized arthritis.
The deciding factor: Service connection was granted based on direct evidence of a current disability (degenerative joint disease) that is related to service-connected disabilities (cervical and lumbar spine conditions).
- Claimed conditions
- Generalized arthritis, Degenerative joint disease
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 23, 2002
- Citation
- 0200801
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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.
What you can do next
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- Dismissed
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- Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claims for a compensable rating for bilateral hearing loss, service connection for a right eye disability, a joint condition claimed as chronic fatigue, and generalized arthritis.
- Remanded (sent back)
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