The Board denied service connection for numbness in the hands and legs, as well as reopening a claim for low back disorder. The veteran's claimed conditions were not found to be incurred or aggravated during active duty.
The deciding factor: The evidence did not establish that the veteran had current disabilities of numbness in the hands and legs, nor was there sufficient evidence to reopen his claim for service connection for spondylolysis of L5.
- Claimed conditions
- numbness in the hands, numbness in the legs
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 14, 2007
- Citation
- 0739360
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- Denied
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