Board of Veterans’ Appeals decision 1133440
The deciding factor:
- Claimed conditions
- Postoperative residuals of right ankle injury, Residuals of low back injury
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- September 9, 2011
- Citation
- 1133440
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- Granted
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- Denied
The Board found that the veteran's current low back and right shoulder conditions are not related to his service, thus denying his claims for service connection.
- Granted
The Board has determined that the veteran's service-connected low back injury and related neurological impairment of the legs with loss of use are supported by medical evidence, warranting a grant of service connection for these conditions.
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