The Board has granted service connection for the Veteran's herniated disc, L5-S1, spondylolisthesis with loss of lordosis and assigned an initial 10 percent rating effective August 21, 2003. The Veteran is now appealing the effective date of this award.
The deciding factor: The claim was reopened based on new evidence provided by the Veteran's service personnel records indicating his military duties as a heavy equipment operator which could have caused his back injury in service.
- Claimed conditions
- herniated disc L5-S1, spondylolisthesis with loss of lordosis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- September 7, 2017
- Citation
- 1737414
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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.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's claim for service connection for herniated disc L5-S1 as her symptoms are already considered in her existing service-connected disabilities.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has decided that the evaluation for the service-connected herniated disc L5-S1, claimed as low back, needs to be reconsidered due to new evidence submitted since the April 2020 Statement of the Case.
- Granted
The Board has granted the reopening of the Veteran's claim for service connection for a low back condition, but has remanded the issue to obtain additional medical evidence.
- Granted
The Board has granted service connection for the Veteran's herniated discs L4-L5 and L5-S1, but has remanded the issue of service connection for right inguinal and umbilical hernias.
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