The Board finds that the Veteran's service-connected cervical spine disability did not cause or aggravate his claimed disabilities of numbness in the lower extremities, a knot on the right foot, sluggishness, and loss of bowel control.
The deciding factor: The evidence does not support a finding that the Veteran's service-connected cervical spine disability caused or aggravated any of these conditions.
- Claimed conditions
- numbness of the lower extremities, knot on the right foot, sluggishness, loss of bowel control
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- July 22, 2016
- Citation
- 1629369
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