The Board finds that the Veteran's current low back disorder is not related to his active military service. The evidence does not show a chronic disability during service or continuity of symptomatology after service.
The deciding factor: There is no medical evidence showing a chronic low back disorder in service, and the Veteran did not have any complaints or treatment for such an injury until years after separation from service.
- Claimed conditions
- Degenerative changes of the lower lumbar spine with degenerative disc disease at L4-L5 and L5-S1, Post surgical lumbar laminectomy
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 31, 2012
- Citation
- 1244360
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