The Board has granted service connection for chronic muscular strain of the lumbar spine and assigned a 10 percent evaluation effective November 28, 1995. The veteran's appeal is not about service connection at all.
The deciding factor: The veteran did not contest the grant of service connection or the initial evaluation assigned.
- Claimed conditions
- chronic muscular strain of the lumbar spine, organic brain syndrome with headaches
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- June 6, 2003
- Citation
- 0311682
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 1,643 · Granted: 15% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
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