The Board has determined that the veteran's degenerative disk disease of the lower back is proximately due to his service-connected left foot amputation, granting service connection for this condition.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner and private chiropractor both indicated a likelihood that the veteran's current back disability was caused by his service-connected left foot amputation.
- Claimed conditions
- Degenerative disk disease of the lower back
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- March 2, 2004
- Citation
- 0405668
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 292 · Granted: 21% (granted or partly granted, in the indexed decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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