The Board denied the veteran's claims for increased disability rating, service connection, and TDIU due to his low back sprain. The veteran's degenerative changes of the lumbar spine were not found to be proximately due to or the result of his service-connected low back sprain.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence did not establish a direct link between the veteran's service-connected low back sprain and his claimed degenerative changes of the lumbar spine, nor was there sufficient evidence to find that these conditions were secondary to his service-connected disability.
- Claimed conditions
- low back sprain, degenerative changes of the lumbar spine
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- July 22, 2005
- Citation
- 0520009
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