The Board has denied the veteran's claim for service connection for a right leg disability as secondary to his service-connected low back disability, finding no evidence of a separate and distinct right leg disability.
The deciding factor: The preponderance of the evidence demonstrated that the veteran had occasional right leg pain as a symptom of his low back disability, without any separately ratable right leg disability shown.
- Claimed conditions
- Right leg disability
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- July 29, 2002
- Citation
- 0208595
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