The Board has granted service connection for bilateral carpal tunnel syndrome and found that the veteran's current low back disorder is related to his military service. The right renal calculus issue remains unresolved.
The deciding factor: Service connection was established based on continuity of symptomatology since service, with no indication of intercurrent causes.
- Claimed conditions
- right renal calculus, mechanical low back syndrome
- How they argued it
- Presumptive (no nexus needed)
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- January 12, 2004
- Citation
- 0400869
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 541 · Granted: 32% (granted or partly granted, in the indexed decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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What this means for you
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Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Whole decision: Denied
The Board denied a rating in excess of 60 percent for chronic kidney disease with hypertension and right renal calculus.
- Whole decision: Granted
The Board has granted the Veteran's request to restore his VA disability compensation benefits that were withheld due to incarceration, as his felony conviction was overturned on appeal.
- Whole decision: Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran's claim for a total rating based on unemployability due to service-connected disabilities is granted, with the exception of his right knee and back issues which are remanded. The Veteran also has higher ratings for his mechanical low back syndrome and limitation of flexion of the right knee.
- Whole decision: Granted
The veteran's right renal calculus, which required drug therapy to control recurrent stone formation, is now rated at 30 percent. The lumbar spine condition remains at a 10 percent rating.
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