The VA determined that there is no evidence of a lumbar spine disability with radiculopathy during the veteran's military service or within the one-year presumptive period after separation. The Board therefore denied the claim for service connection.
The deciding factor: There was no in-service diagnosis or treatment of the claimed lumbar spine disabilities, and the earliest documented diagnoses were several decades post-service.
- Claimed conditions
- lumbar intervertebral disk displacement, lumbar degenerative disk disease, right lumbar radiculopathy
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 24, 2008
- Citation
- 0844515
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Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Dismissed
The Veteran's appeal was dismissed due to their death during the pendency of the appeal.
- Granted
The Board has determined that the Veteran's lumbar degenerative disk disease began during service and continues to this day, meeting all criteria for service connection.
- Denied
The Board denied service connection for right and left lumbar radiculopathy as the underlying primary low back disability is not an adjudicated service-connected condition.
- Granted
The Veteran's claim for service connection for a low back disability was granted, with the Board finding that his current disabilities are related to his in-service diagnoses of sacralization and pseudoarthrosis.
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