The Board found that there is no evidence of a chronic disability affecting the spine, hip and pelvis region during service. The weight of the competent evidence was against a conclusion that current disability associated with osteopenia and osteoporosis of the vertebral spine with degenerative joint disease of the hip and pelvis is the result of in-service symptomatology or pathology. Therefore, the claim for service connection for the claimed spinal disability was denied.
The deciding factor: The Board determined that there was no evidence of a chronic disability affecting the spine, hip and pelvis region during service and that current disability associated with osteopenia and osteoporosis of the vertebral spine with degenerative joint disease of the hip and pelvis is not related to in-service symptomatology or pathology.
- Claimed conditions
- Osteopenia and Osteoporosis of the Vertebral Spine with Degenerative Joint Disease of the Hip and Pelvis
- How they argued it
- Presumptive (no nexus needed)
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 5, 2006
- Citation
- 0600156
Veterans Law Judge
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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