The Board has granted service connection for the Veteran's claimed back and neck conditions, finding that these conditions are directly related to his military service.
The deciding factor: The Board found sufficient evidence to conclude that the Veteran's symptoms of a back condition (lumbar spinal stenosis status post (s/p) spinal fusion and cervical fusion) started in service and continued through his diagnosis.
- Claimed conditions
- lumbar spinal stenosis status post (s/p) spinal fusion, cervical fusion
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 22, 2019
- Citation
- 19188484
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 1,506 · Granted: 43% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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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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