The Board has determined that the veteran's service-connected low back injury and related neurological impairment of the legs with loss of use are supported by medical evidence, warranting a grant of service connection for these conditions.
The deciding factor: Medical opinions linking current disabilities to in-service injuries or diagnoses were provided, supporting the claim for service connection.
- Claimed conditions
- Residuals of low back injury, Neurological impairment of the legs with loss of use of the lower extremities
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 15, 2004
- Citation
- 0409724
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Decisions by this judge: 1,613 · Granted: 30% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
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What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
What you can do next
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- Denied
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