The Board found no new and material evidence to reopen the claim, and denied service connection for a chronic low back disorder due to lack of medical nexus between the current condition and active service.
The deciding factor: VA could not establish a link between the veteran's current low back disability and any incident of service, including an in-service truck accident.
- Claimed conditions
- chronic low back disorder
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 5, 2006
- Citation
- 0637812
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