The Board has reopened the Veteran's claim and granted service connection for a back disability, including lumbar IVDS, T12 compression fracture, and wedge fractures of L2 and L4. The evidence received since the last final denial is considered new and material.
The deciding factor: The Board found that the evidence now submitted raises a reasonable possibility of substantiating the claim for service connection due to an in-service injury and current diagnoses.
- Claimed conditions
- lumbar Intervertebral Disc Syndrome (IVDS), T12 compression fracture, wedge fractures of L2 and L4
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 17, 2014
- Citation
- 1450842
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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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- Partly granted
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- Remanded (sent back)
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- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the case due to issues regarding functional loss during flare-ups and after repeated use of the back, as well as the adequacy of previous VA examination reports.
- Granted
The Board has granted service connection for the Veteran's back disability, diagnosed as a T12 compression fracture, on a secondary basis to his service-connected residuals of cerebrovascular accident (CVA), left lower extremity. The decision finds that the Veteran's back disability was proximately due to his service-connected CVA.
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