The Board has granted service connection for thoracolumbar spine strain, finding that the Veteran's current back condition is related to his military service. The issue of entitlement to service connection for a neck injury remains pending and will be remanded.
The deciding factor: Service connection was established based on continuity of symptomatology since service, with no evidence of pre-service or in-service incurrence or aggravation of the claimed conditions.
- Claimed conditions
- lower back injury, upper back injury, neck injury
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 9, 2011
- Citation
- 1117810
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