The Board has reopened the veteran's claim for service connection due to new and material evidence, and finds that his current back disability is at least as likely as not aggravated by active duty.
The deciding factor: The private medical records show a preexisting back disability that was permanently aggravated during service.
- Claimed conditions
- radicular lumbar syndrome with L5, S1 root irritation and early degenerative disc disease at the thoracolumbar junction
- How they argued it
- Aggravation of a pre-existing condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 19, 2006
- Citation
- 0614719
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What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
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