Your claims for service connection have been reopened, but the Board is unable to make a decision on whether your lumbar spine disability, vision disability, and migraine headaches are related to service.,The Board has determined that new evidence received since previous decisions supports reopening of your claims for lumbar spine disability, vision disability, and migraine headaches. However, further development is needed as the current medical records do not provide sufficient information on whether these conditions were incurred or aggravated by service.
The deciding factor: Insufficient medical evidence to determine if the Veteran's lumbar spine disability, vision disability, and migraine headaches are related to service.
- Claimed conditions
- lumbar spine disability, vision disability, migraine headaches
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- August 23, 2018
- Citation
- 18129067
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- Granted
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