The Board denied the veteran's claim for service connection for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) with anxiety as secondary to a service-connected lumbosacral strain, finding that there was no current diagnosis of PTSD and the preponderance of evidence was against such a diagnosis.
The deciding factor: The Board found that the veteran did not have combat duty and the preponderance of the competent evidence was against a current diagnosis of PTSD.
- Claimed conditions
- post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) with anxiety
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 30, 2009
- Citation
- 0903185
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