The Veteran's low back pain is rated at 10 percent, and the other claims for service connection are denied. The effective date of this rating decision remains to be determined.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's low back pain was found to meet the criteria for a 10 percent evaluation under the general rating formula for diseases and injuries of the spine.
- Claimed conditions
- low back pain, kidney stones, arthritis of knees and ankles, hypertensive cardiovascular disease and hypertension, pulmonary tuberculosis
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- April 16, 2010
- Citation
- 1014515
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