The Board denied service connection for mechanical low back pain and peripheral vestibular disorders (dizziness) as secondary to the Veteran's service-connected chronic oral antral sinus fistula.,Service connection was not granted for either condition.
The deciding factor: There is no medical evidence establishing a direct link between the service-connected disability and the claimed conditions, nor does there exist sufficient evidence of a secondary service connection.
- Claimed conditions
- lumbosacral or cervical strain, peripheral vestibular disorders
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 28, 2018
- Citation
- 18160341
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- Dismissed
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- Dismissed
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- Dismissed
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