The Board has reopened the Veteran's claim of service connection for a low back disability and granted service connection based on evidence showing that his current degenerative joint and disc disease is related to an in-service injury.
The deciding factor: The medical opinions provided by private physicians support the Veteran's contention that his current condition is due to an in-service injury, which has been accepted as sufficient to establish service connection.
- Claimed conditions
- Degenerative joint and degenerative disc disease of the lumbar spine
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 25, 2014
- Citation
- 1412472
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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.
What you can do next
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- Denied
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The Board granted service connection for degenerative joint and degenerative disc disease of the lumbar spine, left knee disability, right knee disability, and left hip disability as secondary to pes planus.
- Denied
The veteran's claim for a higher disability rating for his low back injury involving degenerative joint and degenerative disc disease of the lumbar spine was denied as his condition does not meet the criteria for a higher rating.
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