The Board has granted service connection for a low back disorder and increased the rating for epilepsy to 20 percent, effective October 22, 2008.
The deciding factor: Service connection was established based on chronic low back pain that had its clinical onset during active service due to repetitive lifting injuries suffered while deployed in Iraq. The Veteran's epilepsy was rated at 20% as of October 22, 2008.
- Claimed conditions
- Low Back Pain, Epilepsy
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 20%
- Decision date
- October 27, 2010
- Citation
- 1040351
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