The Veteran's degenerative disc disease of the lumbar spine and right leg radiculopathy are granted as service connected. The conditions are found to be related to his active duty service.
The deciding factor: The Veteran has competent and credible evidence showing that he had complaints of back pain and radiating right leg pain during service, which continued after service and is linked to the current disabilities by medical opinion.
- Claimed conditions
- Degenerative disc disease of lumbar spine, Right leg radiculopathy
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 27, 2020
- Citation
- 20006579
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Decisions by this judge: 2,435 · Granted: 22% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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