The Board has granted the Veteran's claim for service connection for numbness of the legs, finding that it is at least as likely as not related to his service-connected mechanical low back pain.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner opined that the current leg numbness is more likely secondary to diabetes mellitus rather than the service-connected mechanical low back pain.
- Claimed conditions
- numbness of legs
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 21, 2010
- Citation
- 1003167
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What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
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- Denied
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- Remanded (sent back)
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