The Board denied the veteran's claims for service connection for a personality deficit with nervous breakdown and low back condition with degenerative joint/disc disease, finding that there was no evidence of such conditions in service or any link to service.
The deciding factor: Service connection may not be granted for personality deficits as they are not diseases or injuries under VA law. The veteran's lower back condition is denied because the preponderance of medical evidence does not support a causal relationship with service, and there was no documented symptoms in service. Service connection for the personality deficit claim is also denied due to lack of competent medical evidence linking it to service.
- Claimed conditions
- Low back condition with degenerative joint/disc disease, Personality deficit with nervous breakdown
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- July 19, 2006
- Citation
- 0621145
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