The Board denied service connection for a low back disorder, finding no evidence linking the current condition to service or any event thereof. The veteran's thoracic spine disability is not considered to have caused or aggravated his claimed low back disorder.
The deciding factor: No medical professional has specifically linked any inservice episodes of back strain to the entities initially shown postservice (chronic low back disorders), and no evidence supports a finding that the service-connected thoracic spine disability caused an increased level of severity of any current low back disorder.
- Claimed conditions
- low back disorder
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- June 23, 2003
- Citation
- 0313650
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