The Board has granted service connection for a lumbar strain with degenerative changes, right shoulder tendinitis, and a cervical strain with degenerative changes. The Veteran's current diagnoses are related to the injury he sustained in service.
The deciding factor: The VA physician opined that if the Veteran had continuity of back, neck, and right shoulder symptomatology since service, then it is more likely than not that the disorders on appeal are related to service.
- Claimed conditions
- lumbar strain, right shoulder tendinitis, cervical strain
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- July 16, 2013
- Citation
- 1322589
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What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
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