The Board has determined that the veteran's degenerative disc disease of the lumbar spine and neck disorder did not begin in service or are related to any incident therein, nor is it proximately due to his service-connected right knee disorder.
The deciding factor: There is no competent medical evidence indicating a direct link between the veteran's current back and neck disorders and his active duty service.
- Claimed conditions
- Degenerative disc disease with discogenic pain at L5-6 and L6-S1, Neck disorder
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- July 30, 2004
- Citation
- 0420953
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