The Veteran's lumbar spine disorder, diagnosed as spondylolisthesis, spondylosis, and degenerative disc disease (DDD), is found to be related to his military service. As a result, the claim for service connection for this condition is granted.
The deciding factor: The Board finds that the Veteran's lumbar spine disorder is directly related to his in-service occurrence of low back pain lasting three months in 1993 and mechanical back pain noted at separation from service.
- Claimed conditions
- spondylolisthesis, spondylosis, degenerative disc disease (DDD)
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- June 1, 2018
- Citation
- 18107093
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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.
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