The Board has determined that the Veteran's chronic neck and back disabilities are not service-connected, as they are not shown to be related to her active duty or secondary to her service-connected tardive dyskinesia.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence does not support a finding of a chronic disability of the neck and/or back that is either service-connected or secondary to her service-connected tardive dyskinesia.
- Claimed conditions
- Chronic Neck Disability, Chronic Back Disability
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- July 9, 2014
- Citation
- 1430897
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