The Board has denied the veteran's claim of service connection for nerve damage of the bilateral lower extremities as secondary to his service-connected lumbar spine disability, finding that the evidence does not establish a link between the two.
The deciding factor: The evidence does not show that the nerve damage is caused or aggravated by the service-connected lumbar spine disability.
- Claimed conditions
- nerve damage of the bilateral lower extremities
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- July 24, 2006
- Citation
- 0621882
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