The Board denied the Veteran's claims for service connection of a thoracic spine disability and an evaluation in excess of 10 percent disabling for her chronic lumbosacral strain, finding that there was no evidence to support a causal relationship between these conditions and active service.
The deciding factor: The VA examiners concluded that the Veteran’s current thoracic spine condition is not causally related to active service or to include as secondarily related to her service-connected cervical or lumbar spine disabilities.
- Claimed conditions
- Chronic lumbosacral strain, Thoracic spine disability
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- August 28, 2019
- Citation
- 19166752
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Decisions by this judge: 1,874 · Granted: 33% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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- Partly granted
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