The Board has determined that the veteran's degenerative disc disease, L4-L5 and L5-S1, was not incurred in or aggravated by active service.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner found it unlikely that the veteran's current back condition is related to service due to lack of evidence from contemporaneous medical records indicating any such injury during service.
- Claimed conditions
- degenerative disc disease, L4-L5, degenerative disc disease, L5-S1
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 8, 2005
- Citation
- 0510204
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