The Board has reopened the claim for service connection for right leg pain, including right-sided sciatica, and finds that it is at least as likely as not related to the Veteran's military service. The evidence supports a finding of service connection.
The deciding factor: The May 2007 private neurologist's report provided clinical impressions consistent with meralgia paresthetica or lateral femoral cutaneous neuritis and sciatica, which are etiologically linked to prolonged sitting on hard surfaces as a tail gunner in a B-52 during service.
- Claimed conditions
- right-sided sciatica, meralgia paresthetica or lateral femoral cutaneous neuritis
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 30, 2017
- Citation
- 1754949
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