The Board has reopened the claims for service connection for degenerative joint disease, involving L5-S1, T12-L1, L1-L2 and a left hip disorder as secondary to residuals of a gunshot wound. However, it was determined that these conditions were not incurred in or aggravated by active military service.
The deciding factor: The evidence presented since the May 1979 rating action is new and material, but there is no competent medical evidence linking the claimed conditions to the veteran's service or to a service-connected disability.
- Claimed conditions
- Degenerative joint disease, involving L5-S1, T12-L1, L1-L2 (claimed as a spinal condition), Left hip disorder
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 31, 2008
- Citation
- 0810571
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