The Board denied entitlement to service connection for disorders of the neck, legs, shoulders, and arms as secondary to a service-connected low back disability.
The deciding factor: The competent and probative evidence was against a finding that the veteran's claimed conditions were proximately due to or the result of his service-connected back disability on either a causation or aggravation basis.
- Claimed conditions
- disorders of the neck, leg disorders, shoulder disorders, arm disorders
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 7, 2009
- Citation
- 0900661
What this means for you
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