The Board found that the veteran's current low back disability is not related to his service, and thus denied his claim for service connection.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner stated a medical opinion that the current low back disability is not related to the in-service trauma.
- Claimed conditions
- low back pain with degenerative disc disease
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 16, 2006
- Citation
- 0632195
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