The Board has reopened the claim of service connection for low back disability and granted it. The veteran's current low back disability, including lumbar disc disease and arthritis of the lumbar spine, is considered to be incurred in service. Service connection was also granted for degenerative joint disease of both knees.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence supports a finding that the veteran's current low back disability, including lumbar disc disease and arthritis of the lumbar spine, is attributable to his fall from scaffolding during active service.
- Claimed conditions
- Low back disability, Degenerative joint disease of the right knee, Degenerative joint disease of the left knee
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 13, 2002
- Citation
- 0202358
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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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- Granted
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- Denied
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