Your claim for service connection for a low back and right side disability has been granted, effective December 4, 2007. You are now receiving a 40% disability rating for invertebral disc syndrome (IVDS).
The deciding factor: The RO granted service connection for IVDS, which resolved the issue of entitlement to service connection for a low back and right side disability.
- Claimed conditions
- invertebral disc syndrome (IVDS)
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- April 19, 2016
- Citation
- 1615834
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What this means for you
A grant means the Board allowed the benefit or issue identified in this decision. Review the original order: other issues in the same appeal may have a different outcome, and this decision does not predict another claim.
What you can do next
Use your own notice and decision stage. A remanded issue is not a final court-appealable denial. VA review guidance and CAVC filing instructions (U.S. federal; reviewed October 7, 2026).
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Whole decision: Granted
The Board has determined that the Veteran's back disability is related to events in service and grants service connection for a back disability.
- Whole decision: Denied
The Board denied service connection for a low back disability, to include status post lumbar fusion surgery, degenerative disc disease, IVDS, and spinal stenosis, as the evidence did not support that these conditions began during active service or were otherwise related to an in-service event, injury, or disease.
- Whole decision: Denied
The Veteran's claim for a higher rating for his lumbar strain with IVDS was denied as the medical evidence did not support ankylosis or incapacitating episodes of IVDS, and limitation of motion was found to be within normal limits.
- Whole decision: Granted
The Board has granted service connection for a lumbar spine disability to include degenerative arthritis, invertebral disc syndrome (IVDS), and lumbosacral strain. The decision is based on the Veteran's reported symptoms during active service and ongoing symptoms since then.
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