The veteran's upper back disability was granted service connection due to a continuity of symptomatology from her time in service through the present.
The deciding factor: The evidence demonstrated a continuity of symptomatology between the upper back symptoms experienced during service and those currently experienced by the veteran, justifying the grant of service connection without an etiology opinion.
- Claimed conditions
- upper back disability, menstrual disorder
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- March 27, 2008
- Citation
- 0810109
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 1,514 · Granted: 19% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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What this means for you
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- Dismissed
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