The Board found no evidence of a current disability related to service and denied the veteran's claims for service connection for residuals of back injury, right hip injury, and right leg injury.
The deciding factor: There is no competent medical evidence showing that the veteran has any current disabilities related to her service or that these conditions are causally linked to incidents during service.
- Claimed conditions
- residuals of a back injury, residuals of an injury to the right hip, residuals of an injury to the right leg
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 10, 2006
- Citation
- 0613602
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What this means for you
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