The Board found that the Veteran's current low back disability is not related to his active service or was caused by his service-connected residuals of a coccyx injury, and thus denied service connection.
The deciding factor: The evidence did not establish a nexus between the Veteran's current low back disability and his active service or any service-connected condition.
- Claimed conditions
- Low back injury, Sciatica
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- June 7, 2012
- Citation
- 1220152
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- Remanded (sent back)
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