The Board has determined that the veteran's lumbosacral degenerative arthritis is not related to his military service and therefore denied his claim for service connection.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner concluded that the veteran's profound lumbar degenerative disk disease at L5-S1 has little, if any, etiological relationship to his patellofemoral arthrosis of the knee.
- Claimed conditions
- lumbosacral degenerative arthritis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- July 18, 2006
- Citation
- 0620819
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What this means for you
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