The Board has determined that the Veteran's cervical DDD is related to his service-connected TBI, and thus grants secondary service connection for this condition.
The deciding factor: Medical opinions indicate a causal relationship between the Veteran's in-service head injury and his current cervical DDD with nerve impingement.
- Claimed conditions
- Cervical Degenerative Disc Disease (DDD), Nerve Impingement
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 9, 2018
- Citation
- 1808510
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What this means for you
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