The Board denied an increased rating for the veteran's lumbosacral strain with degenerative disc disease and degenerative joint disease, and denied reopening of a claim for service connection for psychophysiological gastrointestinal reaction.
The deciding factor: The evidence did not meet the criteria for higher ratings under the applicable diagnostic codes.
- Claimed conditions
- lumbosacral strain with degenerative disc disease and degenerative joint disease, psychophysiological gastrointestinal reaction
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 28, 2007
- Citation
- 0740856
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