The Board has determined that the submitted evidence is not new and material, thus denying the reopening of the claim for service connection for degenerative disk disease of the lumbar spine.
The deciding factor: The submitted evidence does not provide a significant change in the facts or circumstances surrounding the original denial of the claim.
- Claimed conditions
- degenerative disk disease of the lumbar spine
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 2, 2005
- Citation
- 0512180
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