The Board has determined that the Veteran's low back disability is proximately due to or the result of his service-connected right femur fracture, and thus grants service connection for this condition.
The deciding factor: The examiner concluded that biomechanical changes over time as a result of the in-service femur fracture may have played a role in the development of the Veteran's low back disability.
- Claimed conditions
- lumbosacral strain with scoliosis, lumbar facet arthropathy
- How they argued it
- Aggravation of a pre-existing condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 13, 2015
- Citation
- 1506776
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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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