The Board denied the veteran's claims for service connection for chronic low back pain with slight narrowing of L5-S1, a bilateral leg condition, and bilateral hearing loss.,Service connection was not granted for any of these conditions as new and material evidence had not been submitted to reopen the claim for chronic low back pain with slight narrowing of L5-S1. The Board also found that there is no current evidence of a bilateral leg disability or bilateral hearing loss.,The veteran's claims were denied because the preponderance of the evidence did not support the existence of these conditions.
The deciding factor: The claim for service connection for chronic low back pain with slight narrowing of L5-S1 was denied as new and material evidence had not been submitted to reopen the claim. The Board found that there is no current medical evidence of a current disability.,Service connection was not granted for a bilateral leg condition because there is no competent medical evidence showing a current disability, and secondary service connection cannot be established without first establishing a primary service-connected disability. There is also no competent medical evidence showing the veteran has a current bilateral leg disability.,The claim for service connection for bilateral hearing loss was denied as there is no competent medical evidence of a current disability.
- Claimed conditions
- chronic low back pain with slight narrowing of L5-S1, bilateral leg condition
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- August 12, 2004
- Citation
- 0422150
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