The Board has reopened the Veteran's claim for service connection for a lumbar spine disorder and finds that new evidence supports this claim, finding that his current DDD with radiculopathy, urgency, and ED is of service origin.
The deciding factor: The medical opinions provided link the Veteran's current DDD to an injury he sustained during service, including a back injury from being hit by a club in service.
- Claimed conditions
- Degenerative Disc Disease (DDD) with radiculopathy, urgency, and erectile dysfunction (ED), Back injury
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 29, 2011
- Citation
- 1116736
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