The Board has determined that the Veteran's back disorder, to include spinal fractures and herniated discs, was incurred in service. The decision grants service connection for this condition.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence supports a finding of chronic pain due to post-traumatic and degenerative joint disease at multiple spine levels including C3-4, which is as likely as not related to the Veteran's service.
- Claimed conditions
- back disorder, to include spinal fractures and herniated discs, quadriparesis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 4, 2014
- Citation
- 1453458
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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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- Denied
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