The Board has denied the Veteran's claim for service connection for residuals of a traumatic brain injury (TBI), specifically back and neck pain, finding that there is no evidence to support a relationship between these disabilities and his in-service head injury or service-connected TBI.
The deciding factor: The VA examiners found no clear evidence linking the current spinal degenerative arthritis to the in-service head injury or service-connected TBI.
- Claimed conditions
- residuals of TBI, neck and back pain
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 31, 2018
- Citation
- 1806217
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