The Board has granted service connection for a low back disability with arthritis, finding that it is proximately due to the Veteran's service-connected right knee disability. The cervical spine disability was also found to be secondary to his service-connected right knee disability.,Service connection for a cervical spine disability could not be established as there was no evidence of chronic disease noted in service or within the applicable presumptive period, and continuity of symptomatology has not been shown since service.
The deciding factor: The Board found that the Veteran's low back disability with arthritis is proximately due to his service-connected right knee disability, as evidenced by medical opinions linking the fall from a ladder in 2008 to the Veteran's current lumbar spine degenerative arthritis and related symptoms.,For the cervical spine disability, the Board concluded that there was no evidence of chronic disease noted in service or within the applicable presumptive period, and continuity of symptomatology has not been shown since service.
- Claimed conditions
- Cervical Spine Disability, Low Back Disability with Arthritis, Numbness and Pain in Right Thigh and Foot, Right Hip Disability
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 9, 2019
- Citation
- 19135907
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