The Board has determined that the veteran's degenerative arthritis of the spine and sciatica are not due to any injury or event in service, and therefore denied his claim for service connection.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner found no evidence linking the current disabilities to the veteran's service-connected injury.
- Claimed conditions
- degenerative arthritis of the spine, sciatica
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- September 23, 2002
- Citation
- 0212826
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What this means for you
A denial is a starting point, not the end of the road. You can see why this claim fell short — and, if you are still inside the one-year window, the appeal lanes that may remain open to you.
What you can do next
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- Partly granted
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