The Veteran's degenerative joint/disc disease of the lumbar spine is considered to have started during her military service, and thus she has been granted service connection for this condition.
The deciding factor: The expert medical opinion concluded that it was more than likely that the Veteran’s currently diagnosed lumbar spine disability had its onset in service.
- Claimed conditions
- degenerative joint/disc disease of the lumbar spine
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- July 18, 2018
- Citation
- 18119074
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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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- Denied
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- Dismissed
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