The Board found no causal relationship between the veteran's service-connected left shoulder disability and his claimed back disorder or moderate restrictive lung disease, thus denying both claims.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner opined that the veteran's current low back pain syndrome with age-related degenerative changes was less likely than not related to his service-connected left shoulder disability. The moderate restrictive lung disease was also found unrelated to his service-connected condition.
- Claimed conditions
- Mechanical low back pain syndrome with age-related degenerative changes, Moderate restrictive lung disease
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- June 18, 2007
- Citation
- 0718245
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