The Board denied reopening the claim for service connection for low back pain, to include as secondary to a lateral femoral cutaneous nerve condition. The Veteran's residuals of a gun shot wound of the abdomen and right flank are not productive of moderately severe muscle impairment warranting an evaluation in excess of 10 percent. The Veteran is already in receipt of the highest available evaluation for meralgia due to entrapment of the right lateral femoral cutaneous nerve.
The deciding factor: The evidence received since the September 1995 rating decision does not raise a reasonable possibility of substantiating the claim of entitlement to service connection for low back pain, to include as secondary to lateral femoral cutaneous nerve condition.
- Claimed conditions
- low back pain, residuals of a gun shot wound (GSW) of the abdomen and right flank, meralgia due to entrapment of the right lateral femoral cutaneous nerve
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 14, 2009
- Citation
- 0913900
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