The Board has determined that the Veteran's low back disorder is caused by his service-connected right knee disability and grants service connection for this condition.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence supports a finding of aggravation, with no clear indication of an independent cause for the low back disorder.
- Claimed conditions
- Degenerative disc disease of the low back, Right and left lower extremity radiculopathy
- How they argued it
- Aggravation of a pre-existing condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- July 11, 2012
- Citation
- 1223993
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