The Board has granted service connection for a low back disability, including degenerative joint disease and myofascial syndrome. The Veteran's current left and right knee disabilities are denied.
The deciding factor: Service treatment records do not document any chronic knee or back conditions. Private medical evidence does not establish the presence of these conditions prior to their post-service onset.
- Claimed conditions
- lumbar myofascial syndrome, low back degenerative joint disease (DDD), low back degenerative disc disease (DDD)
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- September 8, 2014
- Citation
- 1439845
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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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- Dismissed
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