The Board finds that the Veteran's current low back disability is at least as likely etiologically related to his active service, and grants entitlement to service connection for chronic residual disability of lumbar myositis and a ruptured low back disc.
The deciding factor: The private physician provided an opinion supporting a nexus between the Veteran's current low back disability and his in-service injury, which is considered more probative than the VA examiners' opinions that the disability is due to natural aging process.
- Claimed conditions
- chronic residual disability of lumbar myositis, ruptured low back disc
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 12, 2018
- Citation
- 1809202
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Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Denied
The Board found no evidence of a current back disability causally related to active service, including in-service myositis and the Veteran's fall at work in 1988.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the case to the AOJ for development consistent with the Memorandum decision. The Veteran's claim is reopened due to new and material evidence, but further development is needed before a final determination can be made.
- Denied
The Board has determined that new and material evidence has not been received to reopen the Veteran's claim for service connection for a back disability, including chronic residual disability of lumbar myositis and a ruptured low back disc. The claim was previously denied in August 1989 due to lack of evidence linking these conditions to service.
- Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claims for increased ratings for his service-connected lumbar myositis, psychoneurosis and conversion hysteria, residuals of shrapnel wounds of the left thigh and pelvis with retained foreign bodies and scars, and residuals of shell fragment wounds of the right thigh and left leg. The veteran was also denied entitlement to a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities.
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