The Board found that the preponderance of evidence is against service connection for arthritis of the thoracic spine and lumbar spine, as there was no in-service disease or injury associated with these areas, and no showing of arthritis to a compensable degree within one year following discharge from service.
The deciding factor: There was no medical evidence linking the current diagnoses of arthritis of the thoracic and lumbar spine to service or the veteran's service-connected residuals of cervical arthritis.
- Claimed conditions
- arthritis of thoracic spine, arthritis of lumbar spine
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 17, 2007
- Citation
- 0711365
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