The Veteran's service connection claim for a back disability is granted as his current back pain is at least as likely as not caused by or as a result of the injury he sustained during active duty for training in June 1995.
The deciding factor: Service connection was established based on continuity of symptoms since the injury and medical opinions supporting this finding.
- Claimed conditions
- back injury, postoperative residuals of an L5-S1 hemilaminectomy and diskectomy with L5-S1 transverse process fusion
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 29, 2010
- Citation
- 1011676
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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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- Dismissed
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- Dismissed
The veteran's requests to switch dockets and appeals for service connection were denied as untimely, with no good cause shown.
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