The Board has granted service connection for a chronic lumbosacral strain, but denied service connection for bilateral knee and left shoulder conditions.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's back condition is related to service, while his bilateral knee and left shoulder conditions are not related to service.
- Claimed conditions
- chronic lumbosacral strain, bilateral knee condition, left shoulder condition
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 11, 2015
- Citation
- 1510085
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