The Board has determined that the Veteran's lumbar myofasciitis had its onset during active duty and is therefore service-connected.
The deciding factor: The medical opinions have noted that chronic low back pain would not ordinarily occur following an epidural and is unrelated to the service-connected knee disability, but the continuity of symptoms since active duty has been established.
- Claimed conditions
- back spasms, lumbar myofasciitis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- April 9, 2012
- Citation
- 1212907
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What this means for you
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Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Granted
The Veteran's back spasms are granted as secondary to his service-connected left and right knee conditions, and he is awarded a separate 10 percent rating for instability of the left knee.
- Denied
The Board has denied the Veteran's claims for service connection for back spasms, confusion/memory loss, depression, fatty tumors on back, and head injury as there is no current diagnosis or in-service event to support these conditions.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claims for service connection for back spasms, left rotator cuff condition, and right knee condition to correct duty to assist errors.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remanded the claims for service connection for sleeplessness, chronic fatigue syndrome, and nephrotic syndrome with chronic kidney disease for readjudication due to new and relevant evidence. The claim for a left leg condition was denied as no new and relevant evidence was received.
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